Hi, as you may know Europeana has been sponsoring special categories within Wiki Loves Monuments competitions since 2011, and have also run the pilot project Wikipedia Loves Public Art. Europeana is now interested in harvesting from Wikimedia Commons to Europeana the images resulting from those projects, that this means the imported images will be displayed as items in the portal and in API-responses. A thumbnail (max 200 px width) will be created and cached by Europeana but any larger image displayed or linked to will be a link/hotlink. But one doubt has been raised:
Europeana metadata is CC-O Licencsed but...what about Wikimedia Commons metadata? Images can be licensed separately (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, PD...): does the related metada keeps the same license for the metadata or the metadata is considered CC-O ? Most of the metadata related with these WLM pic is referred to public heritage lists information.
Following http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome remains unclear if Europeana needs to ask each individual Wikimedia Commons user before doing the harvesting.
Which would be the easiest way of doing it? What do you think about it?
Looking forward to your considerations.
Best,
Àlex Hinojo
On 24/09/13 09:07, Àlex Hinojo wrote:
Hi, as you may know Europeana has been sponsoring special categories within Wiki Loves Monuments competitions since 2011, and have also run the pilot project Wikipedia Loves Public Art. Europeana is now interested in harvesting from Wikimedia Commons to Europeana the images resulting from those projects, that this means the imported images will be displayed as items in the portal and in API-responses. A thumbnail (max 200 px width) will be created and cached by Europeana but any larger image displayed or linked to will be a link/hotlink. But one doubt has been raised:
Europeana metadata is CC-O Licencsed but...what about Wikimedia Commons metadata? Images can be licensed separately (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, PD...): does the related metada keeps the same license for the metadata or the metadata is considered CC-O ?
Commons descriptions are dual licensed under CC-BY-SA + GFDL.
Most of the metadata related with these WLM pic is referred to public heritage lists information.
IMHO most of the descriptions will be ©-ineligible. But deciding if that's the case would need a human...
Following http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome remains unclear if Europeana needs to ask each individual Wikimedia Commons user before doing the harvesting.
That would of course be the safest path legally-speaking.
Which would be the easiest way of doing it? What do you think about it?
Looking forward to your considerations.
I would consult Europeana lawyers.
Best,
Àlex Hinojo
Platonides, 25/09/2013 00:06:
Which would be the easiest way of doing it? What do you think about it?
Looking forward to your considerations.
I would consult Europeana lawyers.
There are also some questions to WMF lawyers about CC0 somewhere on Meta, as of course lots of "CC-BY-SA data" is going to be migrated to the CC0 Wikidata. Things are more complex for Europeana given database rights...
Nemo
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Platonides, 25/09/2013 00:06:
Which would be the easiest way of doing it? What do you think about it?
Looking forward to your considerations.
I would consult Europeana lawyers.
There are also some questions to WMF lawyers about CC0 somewhere on Meta, as of course lots of "CC-BY-SA data" is going to be migrated to the CC0 Wikidata. Things are more complex for Europeana given database rights...
We're working on a Wikilegal[1] memo on Wikidata/database rights issues right now, which will also tangentially discuss the question of CC SA -> CC0. The initial draft is done, but we still have to circulate somewhat internally before publishing.
Luis
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal
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