Thursday, January 12, 2017
Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project
The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the World Wide Web.
The grant will support Wikimedia community efforts to enable the addition of structured data to the more than thirty-five million freely licensed media files in Wikimedia Commons, making it easier for people and institutions to share, access, and reuse high-quality and free educational content across the Web. Wikimedia Commons includes files donated by institutions with substantial media collections, including the Smithsonian, NASA, and the British Library...