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
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:
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.
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:
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 Wikisourcewebsites.
- importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidataand
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
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