OpenNothing is fetched until you ask for something.
Both archives are queried on demand, so this page holds no catalogue of its own. Try one of these:
Images / art
Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. Search a work, an artist, or a subject to start.
Public domainThe Met’s
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s
metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
What was queried
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.Ready - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.Ready
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.