Am 29.03.2014 18:04 schrieb "Andrea Zanni" <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm just on the technical part of the project, so I don't know why the
>> universities didn't share the original texts too. It should be noted
>> also that this project started with clear boundaries, and we cannot
>> press too much the institutions to release data they don't want -
>> still - to share.
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> At the present moment, there is a lot of discussions and "lobbying" to explain that the Universities could benefit in releasing the transcriptions (and other data) in CC licenses, but it's a long battle.
> We will win, of course :-)
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> As Luca was saying, we are very proud of this projects, and hopefully more insights and feedbacks will come in the future, from the academic community. 
> At the present moment, Wikibase is proving itself a great software for collaboration with structured data (which of course was the goal from the beginning).

Great to hear, Luca. If you are doing the technical part, who is the person to speak to for the project and licensing?

Gerard, if this is the first project outside of wmf concerning wikidata, what is the first project including wmf?

Rupert