On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 20:03 Bodhisattwa Mandal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ankry, > > As part of the understanding, NDLI is giving permission to use their > contents to be used on Wikimedia sites as needed. > This is of course not enough. Permission must be given to the entire world, not to Wikimedia sites only. I know you know this, but it is important NDLI understand this, too. A. Also, anything not compatible with Wikimedia sites and licensing will not > be uploaded in any way. > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 19:55, Ankry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm just looking at them. >> >> They have restriction for non-commercial use of their content in their >> ToU. >> So uploading anything to Commons without their explicit permission may be >> against their ToU (even if consistent with copyright law). >> Do we care? >> >> Ankry >> >> >> On 14.03.2020 11:18, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> That's a really great news! Thanks for sharing it. >> I browse quickly the content they have and wow, this is really >> multilingual. I even found some bilingual books with Breton (mislabelled as >> French) and I saw a lot of other minority languages! >> >> Do you already know what the next steps will be? Do you need help? >> >> Cheers, ~nicolas >> >> Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 09:52, Bodhisattwa Mandal < >> [email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that >>> National >>> Digital Library of India >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Digital_Library_of_India> >>> (NDLI), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation >>> (WMF) have signed a tripartite non-binding Memorandum of Understanding >>> (MoU) for a 2-years partnership. National Digital Library of India is a >>> Ministry >>> of Human Resource Development >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development> >>> project, developed at IIT Kharagpur >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kharagpur> >>> which aims to build a virtual repository of learning resources and >>> literature metadata. >>> >>> Through this understanding, we will work together on: >>> >>> - integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website. >>> <https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/> >>> - building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource >>> metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisource >>> websites. >>> - importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidata >>> and Wikisource. >>> - identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other >>> Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks. >>> >>> After months of discussion among the three parties, the understanding >>> was finalized during International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering >>> for Digital Library Design 2019, <http://kedl2019.ndl.gov.in/> an >>> international conference organized collaboratively by NDLI and UNESCO at IIT >>> Delhi >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Delhi>, >>> where WMF was a technical partner. >>> >>> Many apologies for cross-posting the announcement in different relevant >>> mailing lists. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jayanta and Bodhisattwa >>> CIS-A2K >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing >> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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