>
> 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)
>
>
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