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Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 22, 2013 07:30 AM | Permalink

Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness

On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.

Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

A photo taken from the meeting with Goa University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Shetye

As for now the four volume Konkani Encyclopedia is under the copyright of the University of Goa. Dr. Shetye has gifted one whole set of Konkani Encyclopedia to the Centre for Internet and Society and is interested to relinquish the copyright to release it under creative common license and digitize it on Wikipedia. In the coming weeks we'll be working closely with Dr. Shetye and his team to bring this free encyclopedia on Wikipedia.

A Special thanks to Goa State Library, Goa University, Dr. Shetye, Prof. Alito Siqueira, and Prof. Gopakumar for such a wonderful gift. And a big thanks to Harriet Vidyasagar and Debanjan and all those who helped to pull this through.

Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness

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