Hi Maarten, Lodewijk,
We had a meeting at the National Office of Cultural Heritage on Wednesday.
It was a long discussion about the Hungarian Wikimedia chapter, the Wikimedia movement, the WLM and the Hungarian legal situation of the database of the Cultural Heritage, because there is a new (2010) law about the national data properties, and this law is much stricter than any earlier (all the national databases have to be handled only by the government, anybody who violate this law risk a 5-year prison punishment).
The delegation of the Office (president, legal expert, PR manager, head
of the register department) was very helpful and positive, but after the meeting we were unsure could we get the data for the competition or not.
Today afternoon we got a positive answer: the Office can give us the data we need, after we signed a contract about or cooperation.
The legal department of the Office is working on the draft of the contract and we are waiting for their answer.
Best regards,
Tamás
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 23:18, Maarten Dammers
<maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:
Hi Tamás,
This sound a bit like how we organized it last year in the
Netherlands ;-)
Good luck Wednesday!
Maarten
Op 22-8-2011 17:36, Mészöly Tamás schreef:
Dear Maarten and Lodewijk,
I'd like to report on our progress of WLM:
* wikilovesmonuments.hu
domain is registered (at this moment it is a redirect to http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/WikiLovesMonuments
page)
* our external partner responsible for infrastructure (http://indafoto.hu/)
is ready for the competition (and our contract is ready for
signature)
* after two weeks mailing, we got an appointment (this Wednesday)
to the president of the National Office of Cultural Heritage
(first we got an answer with the official prices of supplying of
data: over 400.000 Euro!); I hope we can obtain the national
database of cultural heritage as a donation of the Office.
I will know more on Wednesday.
Regards,
Tamás
(User:Samat)
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:06, Maarten
Dammers
<maarten@mdammers.nl>
wrote:
Hi Samat,
Good luck!
Maarten
Op 7-8-2011 18:38, Samat schreef:
Hi Maarten,
Thank you for the European contact.
I will contact her direcly after I arrived home
from Israel and I inform you without any
additional delay.
Samat
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at
08:29, Maarten Dammers
<maarten@mdammers.nl>
wrote:
Hi Samat,
Op 6-8-2011 9:01, Samat schreef:
Dear
Maarten,
As we talked yesterday, the Hungarian chapter
would like to join to Wiki Loves Monuments
program.
We will do our best to comply with all the
requirements and will update you on our
progress.
Thanks for your help,
Samat
I got in touch with one of my European contacts.
Not sure if that will work so in the meantime
you should get in touch with:
Ms Margit Kertész
Councillor
Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal
National Office of Cultural Heritage
Társadalmi Kapcsolatok Osztálya
Public Relation Department
Szentháromság tér 6.
HU - 1014 BUDAPEST
+36 1
2245586
+36 1
2245581
margit.kertesz@koh.hu
Web: www.oroksegnapok.hu
(from http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/heritage/EHD/partners_en.asp#HU)
Please mention the fact that we're endorsed by
the Council of Europe and some others (logos at
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/).
Can you keep me posted about this?
Maarten