[bibliographica-users] Metadata Database for PublicDomainWorks.net

Wed Mar 16 07:44:12 UTC 2011

Hi all,
sorry to bother you again, but since i did not get any kind of response from
the former email, I was wondering if you anyone could maybe put me in touch
with someone who could help me out with that,
thanks !
Primavera

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Primavera De Filippi <
primavera.defilippi at okfn.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
> I have been talking with Robert Myers concerning possibility to integrate
> metadata from Freebase into PublicDomainWorks.net.
> Robert is grabbing information on visual artists and their works out of the
> freebase database, and we would like to make this information accessible to
> PublicDomainWorks.net.
> Right now, this can only be done by re-formatting freebase metadata into
> the format currently used by PublicDomainWorks.net.
>
> However, after a discussion with Rufus and Tatiana, we have agreed that the
> whole PDW database should be eliminated, and the interface should be
> re-coded so as to go and query directly the Bibliographica database. This
> operation will be done in the following months.
> Of course, we dont want PublicDomainWorks to be limited to textual works,
> so we thought it would be useful to setup a specific PDW database that would
> basically include everything that is not included into Bibliographica.
>
> For this, we need:
> (1) a database - i'm not sure how to proceed with that?
> (2) the specification of the format used by Bibliographica for their
> database, so that the PublicDomainWorks database can be formatted in the
> same and, for the application to be able to query both databases with the
> same function.
>
> Could anyone let me know whether it is possible to get a PDW database in
> the same format of the bibliographica one?
> And do you know anyone from the Bibliographica Working Group that could
> help us out with that ?
>
> We could give then the specs to Rob so that it can feed our new database
> with the data he extracted from Freebase. This would be extremely useful for
> the further development of the PublicDomainCalculators because that would
> allow us to test the new PDW code and easily identify the elements that we
> need in order to determine the copyright status of different types of works.
>
> Looking forward to your answer,
> Primavera
>
>
>
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