User talk:LilacRoses

Welcome
--EncycloPetey (talk) 17:11, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

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courtesy notification :- c:User_talk:Fæ ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:01, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Books published in Edinburgh, do you know anyone able to assist in meta-data and catalogue improvements at Commons?
As part of massive upload project to mirror Public domain works from the Internet Archive to Commons:- c:Category:Books published in Edinburgh

It would be appreciated if you could mention it to you respective colleagues at the NLS, because Commons want to ensure that the contents of it are public domain without issue, and I would feel the NLS may have better expertise in bibliographic and cataloguing matters than I do.

What's essentially needed is :


 * Identification of hopefully tiny number of works still in copyright which would need to be removed for licensing and copyright reasons.
 * identification of primary authors (and their lifetimes) where such details are unclear in the meta-data currently provided.
 * Update of publication dates for 'serial' publications, to reflect the actual year of publication of a specfic volume as opposed to the start of the series (Some IA works uses the start of the series for the publication date field, making harder to identify 'recent' works Commons can't reasonably host.)
 * Appropriate grouping of the volumes of multi-volume sets.

I will of course thank you in advance for any efforts made in the areas noted. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:05, 9 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the late reply.
 * Apologies for the late reply.


 * The digitisation of serial publications by the Internet Archive was based on our catalogue records which explains why the date range refers to the last item published under the title, rather than the most recent (in terms of publication date) item digitised from the collection. This was a choice made by the Internet Archive (and is also the way we publish digital surrogates of serial items on our own website) and we are currently unable to change this approach.


 * As to the actual license: the license was CC-NC at the time of digitisation and the Library has since moved to CC-BY. However, this change has not been made on the IA website and it not without our authority or responsibility to do so.


 * As a side note, NLS were very careful in the selection of materials digitised by the Internet Archive, with the aim to avoid digitising any copyright-protected works. All of this was done by humans so there is always a chance for error. Also, our rights assessment process has changed since our early days of working with IA (from 2008 onwards), and some items might for example include adverts which we did not assess for rights ownership individually.


 * I hope this is helpful. -Chime Hours (talk) 09:44, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank your for the response. The above query was not just about works the NLS had selected for digitization, but about any books with a Scottish connection, or published in Edinburgh.  As I said, cataloging is something a library is far better at than I am. The hope was that amongst the Commons category mentioned, the NLS might also find some material of interest from other archives collections (unlikely, but a thought). ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Continuations on page bottoms...
Not strictly required but continues can be used for these.

It takes a single (optional paramater) "lead" which is the amount of space to add between the line of content preceding and the continuation (so named for the leading in old style printing. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:07, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your advice. LilacRoses (talk) 10:28, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Get the t-shirt
Just a note: if the NLS sold a T-shirt that said "P is for Pirates, Politics, Prophesies and Prostitutes", I'd buy one. ^_^ Am I joking? I'm not sure! Inductiveload— talk/contribs 15:25, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

The Wreck of the Steamer "Stella"
Hi Ruth,

We have been struggling to find a suitable source for the text "The Wreck of the Steamer 'Stella'" by William Topaz McGonagall. Our research suggests it was first published in 1899, presumed to be in a Dundee broadsheet, but then not again until in a 1962 collection (which is still under compilation copyright and can't be hosted here). We did however, find it in the NLS catalogue here. Is there any chance this could be scanned and uploaded?

PS. How is WikiProject NLS coming along? Xover (talk) 13:16, 9 October 2022 (UTC)