On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski@centrumcyfrowe.pl> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I've been until now a lurker on this list, let me introduce myself - I'm
a sociologist studying digital technologies, an activist (I run Creative
Commons Poland) and I run a digital think tank / NGO in Poland.

I'm hoping someone on this list might be able to help me: I'm involved
in the celebrations of the Public Domain Day - on the 1st of January
each year works pass into the public domain of authors who've died 70
years ago (at least in Poland, and in most countries, but it might
differ in some jurisdictions).

I'm looking for a good way to determine, who died in 1941 - and thought
that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are
lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is
there any way to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I
know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is
provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know
whether there is any mechanism for querying?

Any advice will be much appreciated.

All the best,

Alek

--
dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
www: http://centrumcyfrowe.pl
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