![]() ![]() The African collection Fig.1: women and children Nigeria (1922-23) Fig.2: A nurse with newborns in Nairobi Kenya (1945) "I was absolutely delighted about this" was the comment from Jo Pugh, member of the Education and Outreach team at TNA, in reference to the work of the tutor that allowed pictures to be now present also in the shared multimedia archive of WMF projects. Spurred by the scientific director of SYK Iolanda Pensa in early 2012, the donation allowed the project tutor to upload images in a short time, which are now categorized according to the country of origin, thanks to the advice of users Leutha and Mr impossible. The confirmation of the license conditions by the TNA staff was considered more than sufficient and valid and therefore the practice was closed. Forwarding a permission letter to Wikimedia's OTRS was necessary because of the doubts expressed by a user on Wikimedia Commons: he found inconsistencies between the statements of another user, who works for TNA, and some sentences on the Archives' website relating to the status of copyright and licensing. The institution was already using many of the typical web 2.0 tools to redistribute their contents, and in 2011 they had already launched a productive collaboration with Wikimedia which focused mainly on the creation af articles related to the Archives they did not hesitate therefore to formalize the further donation of thousands of images from the collection "Africa through a lens" (Africa through the lens), which were already on their official Flickr account, thus joining a project that declares its purpose in its name - Share your Knowledge ( SYK), the same terminology used by the Archives themselves, as we will see. to servers: new ways of reproducing and disseminating cultural contents Overview of the partnership From shelves.
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