OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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. 12 shown for “Calothrix semiplena C. Agardh” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:05 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
Calothrix semiplena C. Agardh

Calothrix semiplena C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont

Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont

Lyngbya semiplena J. Agardh ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix pannosa C. Agardh

Calothrix pannosa C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix distorta var. flaccida C. Agardh

Calothrix distorta var. flaccida C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix tinctoria C. Agardh

Calothrix tinctoria C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · -- Spr ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix luteofusca C. Agardh

Calothrix luteofusca C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix scopulorum (F.A.C. Weber & D. Mohr) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Calothrix scopulorum (F.A.C. Weber & D. Mohr) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix pulvinata (Mert.) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Calothrix pulvinata (Mert.) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix scopulorum (F.A.C. Weber & D. Mohr) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Calothrix scopulorum (F.A.C. Weber & D. Mohr) C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calothrix confervicola C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Calothrix confervicola C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rivularia nitida C. Agardh

Rivularia nitida C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 997151 matched · 40 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:05 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

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.