[pd-discuss] Metadata Database for PublicDomainWorks.net

[Primavera De Filippi]

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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