On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Stracke, Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > You are mixing up reading and using of standards: > Unfortunately ISO standards are currently not freely available and you have > to pay for a copy. > ISO is changing slowly their business and we have already asked for making > these particular standards available for free. > (For some standards with broad interest it is possible to make them available > for free, decision is pending) > > The usage of ISO standards is completely free: > And also for your development team and for all people "who want to *use* our > data". > I'm convinced that all people does not want to read metadata standards but > only the specialists: > All people want that metadata are simply working well and providing good > search and retrieval results. > Therefore I do not understand your argument (but I agree that I would also > prefer if this ISO standard MLR would be available for free). > Maybe you can say that the standard is not free but the usage of the standard > is free (and that is more important). > Therefore I do not know why MLR should not be usable for a Wikipedia project.
Both cases are important. It's not enough for the standard to be freely usable. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
