Hello, you can take a look to project templatetiger (from Stefan Kühn 
and me) that extract all templates from some wikis by parsing the dumps.

Example Template:Information from Commons:
http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/templatetiger/tt-table4.php?template=Information&lang=commonswiki

Docu:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Vorlagenauswertung/en

Disadvantage: The update-intervall is only 2-3 months.

With Toolserver-account you would have access to the database of the tool.

With Toolserver-account you could also ask the commons-DB to give you 
e.g. all images with Template:PD-old back.

I'm waiting also for years that the Foundation solve this problem of 
structual data.
Some activities from Wikimedia seems to be in http://render-project.eu 
but I'm not sure if they will come to a result.

Greetings Kolossos


Am 19.08.2011 22:58, schrieb Primavera De Filippi:
> Hi all,
> I write to you on behalf of the public domain working grouf of the
> Open Knowledge Foundation. We are currently developing an automated
> system to identify the legal status of different types of works (i.e.
> to determine whether or not they are in public domain). In order to do
> this, we need to gather the necessary metadata to determine the legal
> status of these works. This includes information such as title,
> author, date of publication, etc.
> You can find more information about the project on our site
> http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators.
> A preliminary implementation of the project can be seen at
> www.publicdomainworks.net (site still under development).
>
> Incorporating the metadata from the Wikimedia Commons archive into our
> database would be extremely useful both for us, since it would greatly
> increase the quality of our results.
> eg. in the case of
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyphoma_signatum_(Fingerprint_Cowry_-_Haiti).jpg
> - we would like to retrieve the information from the Summary section
>
> If I understood correctly, the metadata regarding the works of the
> archive is primarily text/html based.
> Hence, I would like to know (a) whether there exists a database where
> this metadata can be retrieved, or alternatively (b) whether would you
> be interested in switching to a more structured database contained all
> the relevant metadata about those works?
> Looking forward to your answer,
> Primavera



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