To further David's point - Flickr.com staticflickr.com panoramio.com and two amazon web services urls
are all already whitelisted for the GWT. So, there are already several examples of commercially operated services that host freely-licensed media files being acceptable sources for the GWT.
-Liam
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On 11 January 2016 at 17:52, Maarten Brinkerink wmnl@maartenbrinkerink.net wrote:
+1
Op 11 jan. 2016, om 17:51 heeft David Haskiya <
david.haskiya@europeana.eu> het volgende geschreven:
Hi, From my point of view: certainly. Commons already has loads of images
sourced from e.g. Flickr (and many GLAMs don't run their own servers but put media in commercial providers servers).
As long as the media objects have the correct file formats and
licenses/rights status I don't see why it would matter that they're fetched from a server run by a commercial company.
Cheers, David
From: Glamtools [glamtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of
Hans Muller [j.m.muller@hccnet.nl]
Sent: 11 January 2016 17:45 To: Conversations revolving around the development of GLAM Digital Tools Subject: [Glamtools] Can commercial GLAM companiy domains be whitelisted
for GWT?
Dear all,
In the Netherlands and elsewhere GLAMs pay companies like picturae.com
to
produce images of their collections, resulting in thousands of .tifs etcetera.
Up to now, as far as i know these company websites have not been whitelisted for uploads to Commons. It could be practical if GLAMs which want to donate images, can do so directly from such a company's domain.
(A
GLAM asked me whether to ask a scanning company to allow this from their company side.)
As i don't (yet) have a specific URL as a test, i can't at this point ask whitelisting on Phabricator. So i would like to test the waters here. If whitelisting of a company is a "no-no", it makes no sense aa company to allow this anyway. GLAMs (and I) must use other more indirect upload inroads.
- What's your view?
Thanks, hans muller
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