Well done. Really great work!

Michael


On 13 Jun 2014, at 15:28, Crockford, Ally <[email protected]> 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
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> Cheers,
> Ally
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