Marvellous work Ally!
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On 13 June 2014 15:28, Crockford, Ally <a.crockford(a)nls.uk> wrote:
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
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