Connected Open Heritage/Countries/Template

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Please answer the questions (in Italic) under each headline. Also include other relevant information and please provide links.

COUNTRY[edit]

Government agencies and cultural heritage in COUNTRY[edit]

Who is working in this field? I.e. relevant actors. Do we have a way to reach decision makers easily?

Legislated protection of cultural heritage in COUNTRY[edit]

How threatened is the cultural heritage in the country?

Please include information about the following:

  • Data about cultural heritage is stored by the following organization: (i.e. is the available data national or limited to a certain region?)
  • The data is available through: <e.g. offline, bulk download, api, linked data, printed reports>
  • The data includes information about the following: <e.g. base data (ID, type etc.), geographical, archaeological/architectural, images>

Policy decisions on access to public information[edit]

Does the country already have openly licensed data and images compatible with Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA etc.)? Are there discussing happening about the value of open data and free knowledge?

Legislations hindering the distribution of pictures in COUNTRY[edit]

Is there legislation against taking photos of buildings or artworks in the public space or does Freedom of Panorama exist?

Museum or archives that could be willing to include their material[edit]

I.e. short information about relevant actors that are believed to support the idea of free knowledge that we have a way of reaching.

Network of contacts in COUNTRY[edit]

Any other organizations that are part of the network that we should contact?