First report for Austria:
The project Wiki Loves monument takes place simultaneously with their own efforts for the acquisition of Austrias cultural heritage in Wikipedia. The Dehio-project was started in Austria in December 2009, but the systematic recording of the objects starts this year on a larger scale. Particularly noteworthy is that there are about 80 to 100 austrian Wikipedians who contribute to this project (lists of monuments).
Cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office (Bundesdenkmalamt)
A delegation of Wikipedians Wikimedia Austria, have brought about a far-reaching cooperation with the Federal Heritage Office of Austria.
This cooperation involves several steps, the period of the collaboration is intended to be permanent.
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Austria are officially a partner of the Federal Monuments Office for at first two photo contests (National Heritage Day and International Heritage Photographic Experience.)
The Federal Heritage Office itself supports the monument list team of Wikipedia in extensive form with the corresponding data for 36 000 objects of all listed properties in Austria.
Especially with regard to the annual update of all content. This allows Wikipedia to create monument lists for all municipalities in Austria to create these lists and to actualize those lists in short term to bring them up to date automatically to a great extent.
The following two photo contests were discussed and agreement reached.
1. The Heritage Day - especially the photo competition for the day, which takes place annually on the last Sunday in September.
2. IHPE - International Heritage Photographic Experience. (Beginning in October 2011 to March 2012)
The Heritage Day
The European Heritage Days are a Community Action under the patronage of the Council of Europe and the European Commission and will take place this year for the 25th Time in a now 50 member countries. The event itself runs throughout September in Europe, in Austria on the last Sunday of the month. The core of the Heritage Day for Austria will be the accessibility of listed buildings with guided tours, which are usually not publicly accessible. More important, we should also yield because of the photo.
International Heritage Photographic Experience
The second agreemanent is also under the auspices of the Council of Europe standing photo contest for young person under 21 years by the Federal Monuments Office for the 7th Times for Austria and is generally dedicated to the cultural heritage. Overall, it is the 16th competition. The website of the organizers based in Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya, Museo d'Historia de Catalunya) shows the 14 Competition and pictures of the final event in Strasbourg.
The purpose of this competition will be photos of all 36 000 monuments which are listed in the Wikipedia lists of monuments, which can then be assigned directly by id-numbers, corresponding to the respective objects. All these photos become part of Wikimedia Commons.
Overall, young people from 50 countries participate in this event, with each country organizes the competition on their own and perform - as well as the selection of the winning photos -, which then opens into a common, printed catalog, which is produced in Barcelona. At the end of each year, a large final event (this year on 6 December 2011 at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg), which is simultaneously the start of the last part of a years contest, because in March, 31, 2012 is the closing for upload images for the previous content.
All photos, which are made in these competitions in Austria are part of Wikimedia Commons.
Other projects
MEMORIAL place of learning is the cultural exchange program of the Federal Monuments Office.
"The goal is to learn together with teachers and students know the areas of Monument, Monument Protection and Conservation, to explore and experience. Whether through projects, workshops or tours - in the center of the monument are a place of learning and exploration exploration of our cultural heritage in the living environment of children and adolescents. The meeting opened with monuments young creative freedom and develops a variety of talents, so that perception and appreciation for cultural products can grow. "
- Federal Monuments Office, Andrea Böhm
Another project - currently standing in the development phase - is so called "monument in the village" This action helds place in Austria's schools and communities to discover and to motivate people documenting their own cultural environment and is expected to start in spring 2012.
Wikipedia will also be part of this project, because it is directly related to the Wikipedia article-work and part of the monuments lists themselves.
What is the benefit for Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons?
All taken pictures which have been taken through the years during all events are on some hard drives and are not used for public use. All the pictures from this events for the next few years, will be part of Wikimedia Commons under a free license given, Cc-by-sa-3.0 AT. This is determined by us, the Federal Monuments Office supports this idea and implement it explicitly. The same also applies for all photographs that are done for the day of the memorial. These photos are part of Wikimedia Commons, equally as the photos for Wiki Loves monument.
Both photo projects aimed at young people primarily - but not only - in order to bring the idea of protecting cultural heritage values. The Federal Monuments Office will launch in schools and other institutions in total 137 000 folders, and all interested participants will be guided to upload to the website of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedians will also participate in the jury (pre-judging / ev. Main panel) for all contests, listen above.
Greetings Hubertl (de:wikipedia)