On 30/07/2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote:
I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned
collaboration with the
National Maritime Museum is now happening.
They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal
Navy warships on their website:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/research-areas-and-projects/warship-histor…
(it says CC-BY-NC but the NC bit is a typo and
will soon be corrected)
I know that "released" is now apparently synonymous with "published"
(in
American English at least). RS needs published secondary sources, as we
understand. Just to be clear, we expect this data to be acceptable as a
source directly citable in articles?
Yes. "Released" refers to the NMM's intellectual property.
"Published"
refers to the act of making it available to the public, as they have done on
their website.
It is also a secondary source, in the sense that it's information gathered
by NMM staff (i.e. people who know what they are doing) from the original
source documentation.
It is clearly an _unusual_ secondary source in that we're much more used to
working with books, website articles, etc than we are with 2,500-page PDF
documents in this format, but previous discussions (on this list and
on-wiki) have indicated that people think it is a good source for the
purposes of WP:RS
Obviously the community as a whole could in theory decide that it is not a
reliable source, which would scupper the whole project and leave me looking
very silly - but given the reaction so far from the community has been very
positive.
(And obviously I wouldn't expect the community to take my embarrassment into
account ;-) )
Chris
I'm not ungrateful for the contact, though. See [[Wikipedia talk:UK
Wikipedians' notice board#Photo request]] for something on my mind a few
weeks ago, directly relevant to the National Maritime Museum though not
about boats.
Charles
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