[okfn-discuss] A start on recording which works will enter the public domain in 2014 in author's death + 70 years countries

Sat Nov 9 12:55:55 UTC 2013

Hi Chris,

Wikidata should be able to do great things with this next year, but it
hasn't got a full set of birth/death dates imported yet. This query
would, if the data was present, find all people with occupation
(writer, artist, author, composer, professor, university professor)
who died in 1943:

http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=CLAIM%5B106%3A36180%2C106%3A482980%2C106%3A483501%2C106%3A36834%2C106%3A121594%2C106%3A1622272%5D%20AND%20BETWEEN%5B570%2C1943-01-01%2C1943-12-31%5D

For the toolserver one, this is an updated version of the
category-intersection script which runs a lot faster:

http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/quick_intersection.php?lang=en&project=wikipedia&cats=1943+deaths%0D%0AWriters&ns=0&depth=3&max=30000&start=0&format=html&callback=&norun

Andrew.

On 9 November 2013 07:30, Chris Sakkas <sanglorian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've created a Wikipedia page for authors and works that will enter the
> public domain in 2014 in 70 years p.m.a. jurisdictions:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_public_domain
>
> If you are looking for entries,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1943_deaths may help.
>
> Last time we talked about this, a number of ways of finding a cross-section
> of the '194# deaths' and the 'Writers' categories were suggested. I've gone
> through all of these entries, but you could use the same process for artists
> and so on.
>
> From Yury Katkov:
>
> Go to this resource: http://dbpedia.org/sparql
>
> and put the following query:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT ?a WHERE {
> ?a dcterms:subject category:1943_deaths;
>    rdf:type dbpedia-owl:Writer} LIMIT 1000
>
> OR
>
> http://www.freebase.com/queryeditor
>
> [{ type: "/book/author"
>    "/people/deceased_person/date_of_death|=" : ["1943"]
>    "name" : null
>    "limit" : 700
> }]
>
>
> From Finn Arup Nielsen, although note it places a heavy load on the
> toolserver:
>
> http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&basecat=1943+deaths&basedeep=1&mode=cs&tagcat=Writers&tagdeep=3&go=Scan&format=html&userlang=en
>
>
> I found the toolserver one most useful because it creates hyperlinks to the
> author's Wikipedia page.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> Chris Sakkas
> Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.
>
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