Openly Licensed Works: CommonsDB Surpasses One Million Declarations

“CommonsDB Explorer Helps You Discover Declarations About Public Domain and Openly Licensed Works”

From a CommonsDB Blog Post:

Since launching the CommonsDB Explorer late last year and moving the prototype registry into active testing, we have focused on scaling up the volume of registry declarations. The registry has now surpassed one million declarations, thanks to the contributions of our project partners, the Europeana Foundation and Wikimedia Sverige.

The goal of CommonsDB is to create a reliable and accessible infrastructure for identifying and verifying the rights status of digital content. Our metadata model and trust architecture ensure that whether a machine or a human queries the registry about a work, the returned declaration data is clear, consistent, and securely linked to a verified identity. This allows anyone to independently check who has contributed rights information about specific works.

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Reaching one million declarations is an important milestone for the prototype, but we’re going further—our target is five million declarations by summer 2026. In the coming months, we will continue testing and refining the registry, and focus on onboarding new Data Suppliers to broaden the diversity of our data. To support Data Suppliers with integration, we will publish online resources documenting best practices for ISCC generation, rights modeling, and declaration submissions to CommonsDB.

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