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Doug McCarthy

Doug McCarthy

— 31 posts published
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September 2026

From a Registry to a Registry Ecosystem

September 2026

Reflecting on the CommonsDB Final Conference

July 2026

CommonsDB Final Conference

June 2026

Visualizing the registry: CommonsDB Explorer gets a dashboard

June 2026

Support and Further Resources

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Handling Metadata Conflicts

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Maintaining Your Declarations (Updates & Corrections)

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Making Declarations: Technical Workflow

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Onboarding: Admin & Credential Setup

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Prerequisites for Data Suppliers

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

How CommonsDB Works

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Why Participate in CommonsDB

— Data Supplier Handbook
June 2026

Introduction

— Data Supplier Handbook
March 2026

CommonsDB surpasses 1 million declarations

January 2026

CommonsDB Feasibility Study part 2: from Design to Deployment

December 2025

Glossary

— System design
December 2025

Response logic

— System design
October 2025

Introducing CommonsDB Explorer

October 2025

Exploring CommonsDB’s role in AI training data

October 2025

AI training preferences and opt-outs: a role for CommonsDB?

— Background information
August 2025

Connecting the Commons: Shared Benefits for Wikimedia Commons and CommonsDB

June 2025

CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Laying the Groundwork for a Rights Registry

May 2025

Developing CommonsDB: Insights from an Expert Workshop

March 2025

​​CommonsDB: A Foundation for Transparent Digital Rights Information

March 2025

Strategy paper

— September 2026
March 2025

Data ingestion handbook

— April 2026
March 2025

Prototype CommonsDB registry

— February 2026
March 2025

Feasibility study pt.2

— October 2025
March 2025

Feasibility study pt.1

— June 2025