Hi all, I write to you on behalf of the public domain working grouf of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We are currently developing an automated system to identify the legal status of different types of works (i.e. to determine whether or not they are in public domain). In order to do this, we need to gather the necessary metadata to determine the legal status of these works. This includes information such as title, author, date of publication, etc. You can find more information about the project on our site http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators. A preliminary implementation of the project can be seen at www.publicdomainworks.net (site still under development). Incorporating the metadata from the Wikimedia Commons archive into our database would be extremely useful both for us, since it would greatly increase the quality of our results. eg. in the case of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyphoma_signatum_(Fingerprint_Cowry_… - we would like to retrieve the information from the Summary section If I understood correctly, the metadata regarding the works of the archive is primarily text/html based. Hence, I would like to know (a) whether there exists a database where this metadata can be retrieved, or alternatively (b) whether would you be interested in switching to a more structured database contained all the relevant metadata about those works? Looking forward to your answer, Primavera _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Hi all, I write to you on behalf of the public domain working grouf of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We are currently developing an automated system to identify the legal status of different types of works (i.e. to determine whether or not they are in public domain). In order to do this, we need to gather the necessary metadata to determine the legal status of these works. This includes information such as title, author, date of publication, etc. You can find more information about the project on our site http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators. A preliminary implementation of the project can be seen at www.publicdomainworks.net (site still under development). Incorporating the metadata from the Wikimedia Commons archive into our database would be extremely useful both for us, since it would greatly increase the quality of our results. eg. in the case of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyphoma_signatum_(Fingerprint_Cowry_… - we would like to retrieve the information from the Summary section If I understood correctly, the metadata regarding the works of the archive is primarily text/html based. Hence, I would like to know (a) whether there exists a database where this metadata can be retrieved, or alternatively (b) whether would you be interested in switching to a more structured database contained all the relevant metadata about those works? Looking forward to your answer, Primavera