It looks very likely that the National Maritime Museum are going to release a
significant amount if information gleaned from their archives under CC-BY-SA so
we can make use of it.
This would include information on the service history of some 20,000-odd Royal
Navy warships.
More information on
Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about the
many notable brits on the ships
Well done in anticipation
On 26 February 2011 09:27, Chris Keating wrote:
> It looks very likely that the National Maritime Museum are going to release
> a significant amount if informati
Amazing news. I'm also amused by how pedantic we are in discussing whether
it's a reliable source.
Deryck
On 26 February 2011 11:43, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about
> the many notable brits on the ships
>
> Well done in anticipation
We have a London meetup in a fortnight, is it possible we could
discuss this there?
WSC
On 26 February 2011 11:43, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> Brilliant news - not only does it tell us about the ships but also about the
> many notable brits on the ships
>
> Well done in anticipation
>
> On 26 February
WSC - Unfortunately I can't make the meetup. Happy to answer questions etc
either over email or on-wiki.
Deryck - yes, it would be bizarre if Wikipedia told the National Maritime
Museum their work wasn't up to our standards. However, because it's unusual to
get information of this nature and in
>
> Deryck - yes, it would be bizarre if Wikipedia told the National Maritime
> Museum their work wasn't up to our standards. However, because it's unusual
> to get information of this nature and in this format, I'm keen to establish
> a consensus at the outset rather than risk an argument about it
Perhaps it would be appropriate to load their material to WikiSource
rather than directly to Wikipedia
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Then we can cite it in Wikipedia, or if the license is compatible and
they have an article where we don't we could even import bits into
Wikipedia.
Some h
Alex - I will certainly make that point to them. The dataset *might* yet end up
on the NMM's own website, though there are apparently some obstacles to doing
so.
WSC - I'd thought about Wikisource. I'm not particularly familiar with that
project - their inclusion guidelines say "Wikisource does
Well RS is my personal "axe to grind" :) and I think this is perfectly
acceptable, and indeed an inviolate, reliable source.
With such matters we have to consider content, author, publisher. Content is
fine, just factual secondary level information based on historical research.
Author is fine too,
>From the project page I get the impression that NMM is publishing the data
online, at the same time as making it available under CC, so there isn't
much problem with historian having to cite Wikimedia projects?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
On Feb 26, 2011 9:00 PM, "Thomas Morton"
wrote:
> Well RS is
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