So can we put them on Commons? Or use them from a Wikipedia file?
John
On 29 April 2020 at 13:00 [email protected] wrote:
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Message: 1Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:43:06 +0100From: Owen Blacker < [email protected]>To: Wikimedia UK list < [email protected]>Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images availableunder CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Message-ID:Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that'sstill a little better than nothing…
The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, makingover 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under aCreative Commons license.
Under the new agreement the majority of the 1.9 million images are beingmade available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0license < " rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>. Users nolonger need to register to use these photographs, and can now download themdirectly from the British Museum.
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Message: 2Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:09:30 +0100From: Katie Crampton < [email protected]>To: UK Wikimedia mailing list < [email protected]>Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m imagesavailable under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Message-ID:Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Thanks Owen! The Natural History Museum did this with their Data Portalasthey were building it. Thanks to Andy Mabbet for letting us know thathigh-res images of their specimens are now being uploaded on CommonsI'm an advocate for getting their bee specimens on Commons if anyone wantsto give that a go :)
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:44, Owen Blacker < [email protected]> wrote:
That it's a non-commercial licence is really disappointing, but that'sstill a little better than nothing…
The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, makingover 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under aCreative Commons license.
Under the new agreement the majority of the 1.9 million images are beingmade available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0license < " rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>. Users nolonger need to register to use these photographs, and can now download themdirectly from the British Museum.
Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, you are free to share andadapt the images for non-commercial use, but must include a credit to theBritish Museum.[continues]--Owen Blacker, London GB@owenblacker < http://twitter.com/owenblacker>_______________________________________________Wikimedia UK mailing listWMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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