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Tag Archives: open content
HLF licensing requirement considered harmful
Andy Mabbett calls on the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to relax the licensing conditions they impose on grantees Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, Wikipedia
Tagged HLF, lottery fundung, open content, open licence, Sasha Taylor, ThinkTank, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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Open Up Your Content – a piece written for Hyperlocal West Midlands
Andy Mabbett wrote about Open Content for the Hyperlocal West Midlands unconference. Continue reading
Posted in hyperlocal, local government, social media, Wikipedia
Tagged Creative Commons, Dan Slee, flickr, hyperlocal, Hyperlocal West Midlands, HyperWM, Kate Sahota, Liz O'nions, moral rights, open content, open licence, redistribute, remix, reuse, revise, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Si Whitehouse, Twitter:user=808kate, twitter:user=danslee, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse, unconference, wikipedia
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Requesting open-licensed, open-format recordings of the voices of Wikipedia subjects for Wikimedia Commons
Andy Mabbett asks people who are the subject of Wikipedia biographies to provide a short recording of their spoken voice, under an open licence. Other people can contribute sound recordings to Wikimedia Commons, too. Continue reading
Posted in ideas, open data, Wikipedia
Tagged Andrew Gray, audio, British Library, free content, media, Ogg Vorbis, open content, open licence, sound, Voice intro project, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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The BBC, Open Content and Wikipedia
Andy Mabbett describes how the BBC could make more use of Wikipedia’s open-licensed content on its regional news and sport pages Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, ideas, microformats, Pink Floyd, social media, Wikipedia
Tagged Assay Office, bbc, Birmingham, hBiota, Mailbox, microformat, microformats, open content, Pink Floyd, Robin Morley, social media, species microformat, wikipedia
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