The content of public domain works is widely findable and retrievable, but the metadata is surprisingly difficult to access and understand. In this post, I dive into:
- The Current State of Open Data on Public Domain Works
- Exploring Public Domain Works in Wikidata
- Querying Wikidata for Public Domain Works data
- Public Domain Works data as a Knowledge Commons
To understand the data in Wikidata better, I generated an interactive knowledge graph of public domain data using the Open Data Explorer:
- The demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nznHVGjiGlk
- The tool: https://opendatadex.com
These weekly Open Data explorations are a project of The Knowledge Commons: https://theknowledgecommons.org
#opendata #wikidata #publicdomain #semanticweb
u/shellybelle — 11 days ago