Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for your reply and interest in the partnership.

It was discussed during the Delhi meeting that as a first step, NDLI will come up with a unique authority control for the authors listed in their website and we will match them with corresponding Wikidata items, thus starting to link Wikidata content with NDLI website. The process was expected to initiate from January, but due to some other other commitments from NDLI as a government agency, it has not been started yet.

As a major part of this partnership will largely depend on the data model stated in Wikidata WikiProject Books https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books, we need works and their editions on different Wikisource projects properly linked with Wikidata exactly following the data model. For Indian language Wikisources, I can say, the linkages are still very low. It would be great, if we can collaboratively engage as many as Wikisource communities as possible to start linking their contents on Wikidata. We definitely need suggestions and all kinds of help there organizing this.

We appreciate if highly experienced community members like you share inputs and insight w.r.t. this collaboration. Please feel free to do so pro-actively at any time.

Regards, Bodhisattwa

On Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 15:49 Nicolas VIGNERON, vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

That's a really great news! Thanks for sharing it. I browse quickly the content they have and wow, this is really multilingual. I even found some bilingual books with Breton (mislabelled as French) and I saw a lot of other minority languages!

Do you already know what the next steps will be? Do you need help?

Cheers, ~nicolas

Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 09:52, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> a écrit :

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Hi all,

It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that National Digital Library of India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Digital_Library_of_India (NDLI), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have signed a tripartite non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a 2-years partnership. National Digital Library of India is a Ministry of Human Resource Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development project, developed at IIT Kharagpur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kharagpur which aims to build a virtual repository of learning resources and literature metadata.

Through this understanding, we will work together on:

• integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website.

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

• building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource

metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisource websites.

• importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidata

and Wikisource.

• identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other

Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks.

After months of discussion among the three parties, the understanding was finalized during International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering for Digital Library Design 2019, http://kedl2019.ndl.gov.in/ an international conference organized collaboratively by NDLI and UNESCO at IIT Delhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Delhi, where WMF was a technical partner.

Many apologies for cross-posting the announcement in different relevant mailing lists.

Regards, Jayanta and Bodhisattwa CIS-A2K _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

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Hi Ilario,

If you check this link https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/faq, you can find it written at the Terms and Conditions section - *The actual contents are subject to the copyright laws of the respective data providers as the authors or publishers retain copyright to these works which are used by NDL India with permission.*

It is the practice for any government agency like NDLI to sign a MoU or other form of contracts with other organizations, before engaging with them in any way. Although I can't speak for NDLI, but it is extremely likely that they have partnered with Worldebooklibrary and others officially.

Regards, Bodhisattwa

On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 23:38, Ilario valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:

Thank you for that,

I have checked some languages but it seems that this digital library have books of some languages completely taken from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) or from World Ebook Library (http://www.worldebooklibrary.org/) and they have their own licenses.

It's not clear what is the library for whom the NDLI owns the copyrights and they can donate.

Kind regards

On 14/03/2020 09:38, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote:

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Through this understanding, we will work together on:

- integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website.
<https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/>
- building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource
metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisource

websites.

...

- importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidata

and

...

Wikisource.
- identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other
Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks.

-- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch