> On 07 August 2015 at 23:35 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> There's 2087 entries on Wikidata for people who died in 1945 and have
> an occupation which is some kind of 'creator' (though due to a quirk
> of the Wikidata hierarchy, that seems to include scientists +
> engineers)
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A(tree%5B2500638%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D)%5D
>
> For authors + subclasses thereof it's a more manageable 636:
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=between%5B570%2C1945-01-01%2C1945-12-31%5D%20and%20claim%5B106%3A%28tree%5B482980%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D%29%5D
>
> No major British names leap out from a quick skim through.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 7 August 2015 at 22:12, leutha@fabiant.eu <leutha@fabiant.eu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last year there was 2015 in public domain and now we have 2016 in public
> > domain . . . but it only has one entry.
> >
> > I would be interested to know if anyone else is interested in working on
> > this and perhaps organising something for Public Domain Day, or perhaps an
> > event later in January when people have recovered from the holiday.
> >
> > Personally I am particularly interested in the work of the encyclopedist
> > Otto Neurath.
> >
> > all the best
> >
> > Fabina
> > aka Leutha
> >
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