Well, we won't solve the legal issues soon, 
we are going to participate anyway (or at least organize it until they literally
prohibits us to do it, this is why we are also gaining official support from institutions
and associations, we need to fix the law :-)

So, while we figure out how many lists we have, 
we'll stay in touch for a common technical solution
for the db. 
I'll forward this to out WLM list. 

Thank you

Aubrey 

2012/3/5 Kilian Kluge <kilian@k-kluge.de>
Hi Andrea,

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> wrote:
> * it is likely we'll have many small lists with different metadata and
> identifiers.

I suggest you sort out some of the legal issues first, and once you
decide you're going to participate (which I hope you will!), get in
touch with us Germans. We're having the same trouble (and some other
nations might too), so maybe we can have a page on Commons where we
can discuss possible solutions and share what works and what doesn't.
We'll be discussing this topic at the end of March in Dresden, where
most of our organizing team meets for the first time and hopefully
come up with some ideas there as well (I'll try to remember to keep
you updated on what we come up with, otherwise just send me a short
message at the beginning of April).

Once we decide on and test one or two solutions and find that they
work properly, we can use those for all the small lists in every
country doing WLM. Then it's also easier and more worthwhile to ask
for additional features in the monuments database, we're probably
going to need those if we don't want to have a few hundred tables for
both Germany and Italy alone (as opposed to one for all the other
nations).

Best regards,

Kilian