Thanks, Daria, for this update!
I’m curious to see how this is concretely going to be implemented on Commons in case of public domain works:
- Two license templates on the respective Commons page? – One for the public domain work and another one for the faithful reproduction, mentioning that the digital image may be protected by copyright if you’re sitting in the UK?
- CC-by referring to the original creator and/or CC-by referring to the scanner (whoever that may be, no pun intended)?
Please keep us posted!
Beat
From: glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daria Cybulska
Sent: Freitag, 7. Februar 2014 15:42
To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]
Cc: John Cummings
Subject: Re: [GLAM] Wellcome Trust CC-BY images
Hi All,
Just so you are up to date on this collaboration. The in person meeting with the Trust last week has been focused on explaining and working out ways in which the upload onto Commons can be done. We were explaining upload tools and tools that can be used to measure the usage of images on Wikimedia projects.
The action from that was for John Cummings to coordinate with Fae (who has very kindly offered to help us) regarding the upload, possibly starting with a pilot set of images. Wellcome's developers are based in London and should be available to assist with some technical considerations - the images' metadata sits in several databases and some work needs to be done to get it all into one place for the upload.
Another consideration is that the set contains some orphan works which I suppose will have to be weeded out.
The most significant aspect is of course the public domain vs CC-By licence. John can correct me here, but the feeling was that Wellcome Trust is committed to keeping the CC-By on these images and felt this is the most appropriate licence for the whole set (which includes images of various 'initial licence' statuses).
Regards,
Daria
On 24 January 2014 15:54, Edward Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
Good news about the Wellcome Library images. I spoke with Catherine Draycott this morning by phone and she indicated that the CC-BY licensing was the first step in a process that includes figuring out how to get their content into the Commons so that it can be used on Wikipedia. She and a colleague have a meeting on Feb 3 with John Cummings (Wikipedia in Residence at the Natural History Museum, London) and Daria Cybulska (WIkimediaUK) to discuss this, and also to plan a possible edit-a-thon on Feb 26th.
I made sure to mention the GLAMToolSet work, which should (in theory) make it a lot easier for GLAM organizations to bulk upload media and associated metadata. I was surprised to learn this is already deployed to commons.mediawiki.org but your account needs to be enabled for you to see it. I’m not entirely sure if it has been used very much yet though.
So, rather than confuse things further by having starting another channel of communication I will bow out and let what Daria and John are doing take its course.
//Ed
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Edward Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
> Yes, I saw that, but thought perhaps they would be interested. I wanted to at least float the idea.
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> //Ed
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> On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Katie Chan <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
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>> On 22/01/2014 14:12, Edward Summers wrote:
>>> d) think about how Wellcome's Wikipedia in Residence [3] could help facilitate the upload
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>>> Does that sound like a reasonable way to proceed? If anyone else would like to be on the call let me know. If there is a Commons veteran who has experience with bulk uploading and is willing to work with the Wellcome Trust in a constructive way I’m willing to just tag along on the call and let them take the reigns as it were.
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>>> [3] https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/482-Wikipedian-in-Residence/en-GB
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>> That post while funded by the Wellcome Trust, is with Cancer Research UK, and targetted at cancer-related content.
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