Dear all,
Germany's national public television broadcaster ZDF releases video clips
and photos on climate change and global warming under CC BY 4.0 for the
first time on this website:
https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.ht…
Though there are things to improve, like adding a CC-button with more info
on correct licensing in each video, this his can be seen as a milestone and
a role model for more content and public service broadcasters like ARD to
open up and share content especially in the fields of news and
documentation.
After all, media under public law are publicly financed and using free
licences would correspond to their mission since they'd make a significant
contribution to the reach of public content.
Feel free to share the news and make them visible on twitter and other
channels.
Tweet by WMDE (german):
https://twitter.com/WikimediaDE/status/1186304730932355072
Blogpost on netzpolitik.org (german):
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/zdf-veroeffentlicht-terra-x-clips-unter-freier…
best
Lilli
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Lilli Iliev
Projektmanagerin Politik
project manager public policy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de
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Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
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Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello everyone!
We've been submitting some information to the This Month in GLAM
newsletter, but in case you haven't seen it, the Wikimedia Foundation is
supporting the work on the Open GLAM Declaration:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_GLAM
We're having our monthly call on Thursday October 10, at 10 AM EST 3 PM CET
and 2 PM UTC. If you want to join, please check your timezone!
This is the link to join: https://www.uberconference.com/openglam
The agenda & the full log of all the calls is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMM…
Hope seeing some of you there!
cheers,
scann
Greetings everyone,
Our next biweekly LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call is Tuesday, October 8th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. Esther Jackson, Public Services Librarian at New York Botanical Garden's LuEsther T. Mertz Library and I will be talking about the Finding GLAMs campaign, which aims to add and improve Wikidata items for GLAM institutions between October 8 and October 29th. We’ll go over how to add items for libraries and museums and look at the Monumental tool<https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental-glam/#/>, which displays information about cultural heritage monuments. If you haven’t had a chance to add items to Wikidata yet, this could be a great opportunity to get some hands-on experience. I’ll be holding working hours on Zoom and Slack for anyone who wants to work on adding items together and has questions. These will be on Friday, October 11th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST, Tuesday, October 15th at 8am PDT/ 11 am EDT/ 15:00 UTC / 5pm CEST, and Thursday, October 17th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST.
The call details are below. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>, and if you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>.
If you haven't joined one of our calls before, the LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the Linked Data for Production project<https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104568167>. One of the goals of the project is understanding how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. Wikidata offers exciting possibilities for libraries to become a part of the linked data landscape, share and reuse data, and discover new relationships and connections. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 8th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20191008T160000&p…>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kpmf2ak1D34ApyGHWHe2mp4V8z-CYcNecy2HN_9…
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/joinld4slack
Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Website: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P2/LD4-Wikidata+Affinity+Group
Cheers,
Hilary
Hilary Thorsen
Wikimedian in Residence
Linked Data for Production Project
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Dear all,
I am very happy to share the news of Dr. Yale Rosen's donation of images to
Wikimedia Commons. He had shared over 2000 images related to pathology,
many of which are rare images, during his long career as a pathologist. He
used to run two Flickr streams, one for Atlas of Medical Foreign Bodies
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/foreignbodies> and other for pulmonary
pathology <https://www.flickr.com/photos/pulmonary_pathology/> images. I
had first approached Dr. Rosen for donating a few images, but he kindly
offered to donate his entire collection of approximately 2000 images plus
the contents from his pathology website <http://granuloma.homestead.com/> for
use on Wikimedia projects. He had shared several images under CC-BY-SA or
lower in the past, but this month, he moved his two large collections to
CC-BY-SA. All images from Dr. Rosen's Flickr streams are now available on
Wikimedia Commons here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_by_Yale_Rosen_MD>.
Please feel free to engage in categorizing, adding structured data and
uptaking these images to Wikimedia projects. The naming and description of
the files are accurate and straightforward, so I think it is possible for
people without specialized knowledge in pathology to perform categorization
and addition of structured data. Kindly write to me if you have any
questions or comments.
Regards
Netha
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Netha Hussain
Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Hi all,
I hope you are doing well! And apologies for crossposting!
I am excited to share a new job posting for the GLAM team at the
Foundation! We are hiring a Senior Program Manager for the team:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1898773
We are looking for someone to strengthen our support of Global Outreach to
the GLAM sector! Please share the job description widely, and help us find
good candidates in all parts of the world: tts a remote job and we are a
remote team!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Ben Vershbow, Sandra
Fauconnier, Satdeep Gill or myself.
Cheer,
Alex
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
"The Louvre is not part of the City of Paris' Museums @parismusees
release, but this is still huge news (and hopefully just the
beginning): 100,000 works will be released high-res as #OpenData.
Publication of policy and selection to come!"
https://twitter.com/AndeeWallace/status/1179714963423842304
It would have indeed been shocking to have the Louvre within such an
open policy, considering they're the arch-enemies of free culture
together with GESAC & Co.
Federico