CommonsDB/FAQ
What is CommonsDB?
[edit]CommonsDB is a registry for Public Domain and openly licensed media.
What is special with CommonsDB?
[edit]There are two main features of CommonsDB.
- Data providers only declares media where the rights are known.
- The perceptual hash makes it possible to find images based on similarity, which means that the digital files does not need to be exactly the same to get a match.
Why is Wikimedia Sverige working on this?
[edit]We think this can be valuable for Wikimedia Commons both for making uploads easier and to manage existing files. Read more on potential for the communities.
Who are you working with?
[edit]- Open Future
- Liccium
- Europeana Foundation
- Institute for Information Law (IViR)