Meetings/2009-11-03/Agenda/Chair's Report
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- Phone calls
- Received a call from a person interested in wikimeets + becoming a member; directed towards wikimeet page and application form. They commented that the website is currently too wordy, and following the links around is non-obvious, which needs to be improved.
- Cultural institutes
- Met with Public Catalogue Foundation, BBC and Intelligent Heritage on 22 October. The meeting covered:
- The legal aspects of digital reproductions (no creative input hence no copyright, but commonly believed by museums that sweat of the brow gives rise to copyright; NPG issue was discussed)
- Making the images available on Wikipedia (would require museums to agree to CC-BY-SA licensing of the images; questions over resolution; concerns over commercial reuse)
- Metadata: potentially reusing Wikipedia content, with checking by experts.
- All very preliminary; will take time before things can happen; museums need to be happy & on board. There will be a meeting with PCF & museums in January, where licensing of images will be discussed.