Hi all,
I am very happy to announce that the first three batches of digital content from the
National Library of Scotland's collections have been successfully uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons this week! This follows the acceptance in March 2014 of a library-wide
policy that places all NLS-generated metadata under a CC-0 licence; digital content will
be released under either a CC-0 or CC-BY-NC-SA licence (unfortunately for the time being
the NLS has chosen to licence its master .tiff files as CC-BY-NC-SA but the policy will be
reviewed annually so we can only hope this is temporary). The Library will be issuing an
official press release early next week and the policy itself will be available on our
website.
Although it's a small batch yet, this is still extremely exciting and is the result of
a combined effort from the NLS and Wikimedia UK; hopefully it is just the first in many
projects of this type both at the NLS and at other Scottish organisations!
See the released content here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tay_Bridge_disaster
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Construction_of_the_Forth_Bridge
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scotia_Depicta
Cheers,
Ally
Ally Crockford
Wikimedian-In-Residence
National Library of Scotland
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