<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Working_group_Cultural_Heritage">Working
group Cultural Heritage </span></h2>
<p>A working group on cultural heritage has recently become active. The
group has made contacts with the Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed
(RCE), which is the national organization for cultural heritage in the
Netherlands. As a result of this, the RCE has agreed to donate an
exhaustive database with the geographical locations and more metadata of
the over 60.000 national monuments in the Netherlands for use in
Wikimedia projects. The working group is currently processing this data
and inserting it into the Dutch language Wikipedia at a rapid pace, so
that it can be used in Wikipedia articles, but also in other project
such as <i>Wiki loves monuments</i> (a photohunt competition akin to <i>Wiki(pedia)
loves art</i>). As the group progresses, omissions and errors that are
found in this data can be corrected, and the improved data is made
available to the RCE again. The RCE has also offered to help in
answering questions that might arise when processing the data and when
writing articles on Dutch cultural heritage.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Working_Group_Copyright_lobbying">Working Group Copyright lobbying </span></h2>
<p>With general elections in sight and a new European Commission in
place, two board members have taken the lead in setting up a working
group on copyright lobbying. As copyright legislation is under
reconsideration at various levels at this moment, now seems a good time
to try and influence these developments in a favorable direction for
free culture.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Wiki_loves_monuments">Wiki loves monuments </span></h2>
<p>On the Dutch language Wikipedia, volunteers have been working on
creating extensive and complete lists of all national monuments in the
Netherlands, sorted by location. They also try to add for each monument
at least one photo under a free license. There are more than 60.000
monuments in the Netherlands, and to help get a freely licensed photo
for each of them, a photo competition will be organized. The contest, <i>Wiki
loves monuments</i>, will be organized in September by Wikimedia
Netherlands together with the volunteers from the Cultural Heritage
project. The general public will be encouraged to visit monuments during
that month and take photographs of them for use on Wikipedia. Photos
will be uploaded through a special project website, and appealing prizes
will be available for outstanding photographs.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="EDRi_Workshop">EDRi Workshop </span></h2>
<p>Esther Hoorn participated the EDRi workshop in Brussels at begin of
February on behalf of WMNL. The workshop was about lobbying on a
European level, and aside from sharing her experience on copyright, she
has made some useful contacts.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Wiki_loves_Bieb">Wiki loves Bieb </span></h2>
<p>Together with the Public Library of Vlissingen, WMNL has initiated a
pilot project on media literacy and local cultural heritage that should
lead to a closer cooperation between Wikimedia and libraries. The topic
on <i>media literacy</i> will involve the development of educational
material for schools on the use of Wikipedia. For example, the booklet
"Wikipedia i skolan" (by Lennart Gulbrandsson) is being translated and
adapted from Swedish for use in Dutch education.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Board_interest_meeting_.26_General_Assemblee">Board interest
meeting & General Assemblee </span></h2>
<p>To give candidate board members an opportunity to get to know the
association and each other a bit better, Wikimedia Nederland organized a
board interest meeting a few weeks before the elections at the annual
general assembly. Based on this meeting, they could then decide whether
they wanted to actually put themselves up as a candidate or not.
</p><p>In March, the Annual General Assembly was held, and therefore
also elections for a new board. Four board members from the previous
board were re-elected and two new board members were elected out of
eight total candidates.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Dutch_Government_goes_CC-zero">Dutch
Government goes CC-zero </span></h2>
<p>Although there is no direct involvement in this decision by WMNL, we
think it is good to mention that the Dutch Government launched its new
website, <a href="http://www.rijksoverheid.nl">www.rijksoverheid.nl</a>, in April under CC-Zero! This not only
includes the text, but also the images and video available on that
website.
</p>
<h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Presentations"> </span></h2><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Presentations.2C_CPOV">Presentations,
CPOV </span></h2>
<p>On the <i>SPE Intelligent Energy Conference 2010</i> in Utrecht,
board members Hay and José gave presentations on how Wikipedia and
Wikimedia let people collaborate. Hay attended a conference on
digitization in libraries where he gave a presentation on free licenses
and collaborative authoring.
</p><p>Organized by the <i>Institute for Network Cultures</i>, this two
day conference about the academic study of Wikipedia took place in the
public library of Amsterdam on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 March. A number
of Wikipedia editors and WMNL board members attended the conference.
Videos of the sessions are available at <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/videos/" class="external
text" rel="nofollow">this page</a>.
</p>