> On 30/07/2011 16:18, Chris Keating wrote: > > I'm very pleased to say that our long-planned collaboration with the > > National Maritime Museum is now happening. > > > > They have released a lot of info from their internal research on Royal > > Navy warships on their website: > > > http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/research-areas-and-projects/warship-histories/ > > (it says CC-BY-NC but the NC bit is a typo and will soon be corrected) > > I know that "released" is now apparently synonymous with "published" (in > American English at least). RS needs published secondary sources, as we > understand. Just to be clear, we expect this data to be acceptable as a > source directly citable in articles? >
Yes. "Released" refers to the NMM's intellectual property. "Published" refers to the act of making it available to the public, as they have done on their website. It is also a secondary source, in the sense that it's information gathered by NMM staff (i.e. people who know what they are doing) from the original source documentation. It is clearly an _unusual_ secondary source in that we're much more used to working with books, website articles, etc than we are with 2,500-page PDF documents in this format, but previous discussions (on this list and on-wiki) have indicated that people think it is a good source for the purposes of WP:RS Obviously the community as a whole could in theory decide that it is not a reliable source, which would scupper the whole project and leave me looking very silly - but given the reaction so far from the community has been very positive. (And obviously I wouldn't expect the community to take my embarrassment into account ;-) ) Chris > > I'm not ungrateful for the contact, though. See [[Wikipedia talk:UK > Wikipedians' notice board#Photo request]] for something on my mind a few > weeks ago, directly relevant to the National Maritime Museum though not > about boats. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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