In switzerland is not so much complicated to have support from the administration. The problem is that they would not waste their time and they have great expectations. As soon they feel that those two points are not assured, they don't wait so much to leave this support.
Regards Il giorno 24/mag/2013 16:46, "Sven Manguard" svenmanguard@gmail.com ha scritto:
I guess I might just be because I'm a jaded American, but I am stunned and impressed that you were able to get that much support and encouragement from your government/government agency. It's is an example that I hope many national WLM groups will be able to follow.
Yours, Sven
-------- Original message -------- From: Estermann Beat beat.estermann@bfh.ch Date: 05/24/2013 9:30 AM (GMT-06:00) To: "Mailing list for Wikimedia CH (wikimediach-l@lists.wikimedia.org)" < wikimediach-l@lists.wikimedia.org>,"Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition (wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org)" < wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Meeting with Fed. Office for Civil Protection - Section Cultural Property Protection
Dear all,****
Yesterday, I have met with the people responsible for the protection of cultural properties at the Federal Office for Civil Protection in Switzerland.****
The minutes (in German) can be found here:****
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Schweizer_Denkmallisten/M...
Here a summary:****
They are happy to help us with the monuments lists in their areaof competence (in addition to the lists of cultural properties of national and regional significance which are handled at the national level, there are also cantonal and municipal monuments lists which they are not responsible for).****
They are positive about Wiki Loves Monuments; the same is truefor the cantonal instances they are in contact with (monument protection services / civil protection services).****
They promised to provide us with database dumps, including allthe KGS-identifiers (A- and B-objects; identifiers of B objects have been missing so far) by the end of May / beginning of June.****
They will take measures to facilitate the updating of the listson Wikipedia in the future (clearly indicating changes on their lists; making database dumps available).****
They ask us not to use the official white-blue cultural-propertysign for any other objects than KGS class A objects and not to use similar signs either (in fact the use of the official sign is regulated by international law and Swiss law) – This should be taken into account when designing the interfaces of information systems (map applications, phone apps, etc.)****
They gave us recommendations in order to avoid complications dueto the different semantic systems at various federal levels****
They will be happy to get informed about any corrections made bythe community.****
So, and now I hope that the 26+ cantonal and municipal authorities responsible for the rest of the monuments will be as cooperative as the federal ones! ;-)****
Kind regards,****
Beat Estermann ****
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Beat Estermann Research Associate****
Berne University of Applied Sciences E-Government Institute Morgartenstrasse 2a Postfach 305 CH-3000 Bern 22 ****
beat.estermann@bfh.ch www.e-government.bfh.ch ****
Phone +41 31 848 34 30 Phone (direct number) +41 31 848 34 38 Fax +41 31 848 34 31 ****
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