The short answer is start here:
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/laws/indigenous/protection-laws.html But, based on a talk I heard at a museums conference, any digitisation of indigenous artefacts is a culturally sensitive matter that appears to require considerable engagement with the communities involved. Based on talks with one of our state heritage organisations, many indigenous heritage items in their register have deliberately wrong locations because landowners and others have been known to destroy indigenous heritage (e.g. bora rings) because of the constraints such heritage items can place on land use etc. For example, the Qld indigenous heritage register is not online accessible with a complex set of rules of who can submit a search request: http://www.datsima.qld.gov.au/atsis/aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-people s/indigenous-cultural-heritage/cultural-heritage-database-and-register-searc h-request/guidelines-to-accessing-the-database whereas the regular heritage register is online for all to see. I suspect encouraging the public at large to go out and photograph indigenous artefacts for WLM is likely to result in something going wrong at some point and bring bad publicity for WMAU and/or WLM. I think it might be OK to encourage indigenous people to photograph indigenous artefacts within their own communities as presumably they would better understand what could and could not be made public, but it's all pretty complex territory in my limited experience. Kerry _____ From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Souter Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:34 PM To: Wikimedia Australia Chapter Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Images of contemporary life for IndigenousAustralians And in terms of Wiki Loves Monuments, where do we find a register of Indigenous artefacts that might be included in the ambit of the competition? T On 02/01/2013, at 1:04 PM, Leigh Blackall wrote: We've noticed a shortage of good images of contemporary life for Indigenous Australians on Wikimedia Commons. We're looking for such images to use in a course we're developing on Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Health_of_Indigenous_and_other_Australia n_Cultures#Images_Needed Can anyone help? -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009 _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___________________ Tony Souter *Fixed-line phone: +612 9310 1474 *Mobile: 0450 717627 (+61450 717627), but usually not switched on *Skype: tonysouter *Street address: 291 Chalmers St, Redfern 2016, Australia
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