[Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread emijrp
Dear all; Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content issue[1]: The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's museums, libraries,

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Mathias Schindler
Please note that this policy statement is dated May 2010, it does not appear to be changed since then (hurray.) Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Liam Wyatt
Yes, Wikimedia Chapters (especially the Dutch - where they are based, and the Swedish - who have a joint project with them) are working with Europeana in a variety of ways. One example is how Wikimedia groups have hosted hackathons using their open datasets and API and (independently) won a prize

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Liam Wyatt
Forwarding from Maarten Zeinstra (who is not subscribed to this list, I've cc'd him): I am not part of a European Wikimedia chapter. However, I am part of the Europeana RD team on intellectual property. Europeana published its Public Domain Charter about a year ago and is steadily working

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 25/10/2011 12:30: Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content issue[1]: The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's