On 17/01/12 19:01, Jane Darnell wrote:
I suppose we could create a new category called "Former Monuments" or something like that to put such pictures in, since they technically no longer belong to the set of monuments we refer to as "the database". To do this we probably need to add a new template. That takes care of the case "WLM photo was already uploaded during a WLM competition, but the monument has since been destroyed or torn down".
I don't see a problem with that. We can continue using the old identifier. It would just have a note about it no longer existing. It's just like old photos of monuments. We had some of them on WLM 2011. And it's really nice to receive such old photos.
I don't see how newly uploaded pictures of former monuments can be eligible for the photograph competition unless we have unique identifiers. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I agree with Nina that this could be interesting from a cultural heritage standpoint. I just don't see how we can include this in the project. Jane
Appropiate identifiers are also a problem for existing monuments. Sometimes they aren't given a proper one, or they just declared heritage all castles in X region, without providing any identifier at all.