Hi,

Great to hear that some work on putting the data on Wikidata has already started! That should reduce some complexity with the project. If there are any limitations or problems that we should be aware of, please do tell :-).

We are now talking with John Cummings, that soon will start at UNESCO, about cooperation around this. Hopefully this will be possible, but there are a bunch of practical things to solve first.

Also, I just came back from a meeting with a Swedish organization called Cultural Heritage Without Borders that are interested in working with us. They have a lot of contacts on high levels in the Balkans, the Middle East and in a number of African countries. Their involvement could open up some doors for us and help convince the decision makers about the value of releasing this type of data. Is there anyone on this list from these parts of the world that think that this would be interesting? 

Regards,

John

Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 07:30:49 +0100
From: Michael@maggs.name
To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
CC: magnusmanske@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International Team

Hi All

You need to talk to Magnus Manske who did a lot of work last year putting the official listing particulars of 50,000 or so UK monuments onto Wikidata.  Last year's entire UK contest was run using Wikidata as the main database.

I am copying Magnus in as he may not be subscribed to this list.

Michael

20 May 2015 22:43
Hi Jon,

thanks for that! Sounds like a good development after all. Probably you could provide some examples of monument databased that have already been included in wikidata? (I believe Maarten did the Rijksmonumenten, and a few more). Also, for several countries, the wikipedia lists were the first accessible for a wide audience. If worked out well, the result could be the largest monument database in the world as far as I know. 

Best,
Lodewijk


20 May 2015 12:47

Hi everybody,


We are still talking with the fund Postkodlotteriets Kulturstiftelse about project financing. They have indicated that work with the WLM database might be a way forward!


Hence, we are now about to prepare an application that (if it goes through) would enable us to put in a considerable amount of staff time to help local teams with getting and processing the data needed for the contest, as well as moving the current data to Wikidata for a long term solution. Also, I would think that some statistical analysis of the data or other form of reporting also could be done as part of the project.


Is there any local teams that would benefit from this technical assistance for 2016? Ideally we should present a few concrete examples.


The fund is especially interested if we could help in countries that have more limited resources and/or where culture is at risk. This could be done even if your team wouldn't have capacity to organize WLM next year.


Please let us know your thoughts as soon as possible!


Best,


John
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11 May 2015 11:04
Hi all,

Just a quick update: Sadly we didn't get the funding for staff support for the international part of WLM. 

However, the fund do want to support our work with preserving cultural heritage somehow (but photo contests are outside their scope) and we will have future meetings with them to see what we can do together. This means that in 2015 Sweden will have a national contest, but we will not be able to help out internationally with staff support.

One thing that I will be talking with them about is the gathering of official monument data, and that would benefit WLM 2016. The question is what we could help with from Sweden on top of the technical work on the database? Can we support the smaller national teams somehow? Please share your good ideas on the list so that I can give examples at the meeting and draft a project plan for them :-).

Best,

John
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14 January 2015 10:57
Great! Thank you Lodewijk. The application will have to be in Swedish and we will also include the Swedish national WLM contest. My idea is that we can specify the needs and the outcomes of the international part of the project together so that the international team gets everything needed. Each year the foundation I am thinking about give out around 11.5 million euros to cultural projects, and each project can get up to 500 000 euros - so we could, and should, include a lot of relevant things.

I have a bunch of other applications to finalize that have deadlines shortly, but my plan is to start working on this application in the middle of next week. 

Best,

John
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9 January 2015 15:37
Hi John, 

sounds great, and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you. I guess most of the writing is something a Swedish native speaker will have to do though, but this kind of stuff I'd be happy to assist where possible. 

Best,
Lodewijk


9 January 2015 14:39

Hi,


I would be happy to look into the possibility of finding external funding for the International contest (perhaps based on the PEG application from 2013?).


There are a few Swedish funds that I know of that might be interested in supporting the international part of WLM - after all it is pretty awesome. If you think that I should pursue this I would of course be grateful for any and all help with drafting the content. Even though these are Swedish foundations some of the staff costs might still be possible to be moved to WMNL or other chapters that have been involved in the international part previously (I think that would be very beneficial because of their expertise) - but I would have to look into if the funds have any rules preventing that. I am sure that it could be solved somehow.


The funds I have in mind have a pretty fast process - and we could probably have a preliminary answer from them within a couple of months or so. Please let me know if you would like me to get cracking at it.


Best,


John
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