Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “Graffiti in Shanghai and Chengdu: Looking for Chinese writing, symbols and calligraphy along the streets” (Kervan 2024, DOI https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/11610). It collects the metadata descriptions of the main artworks analyzed in the publication as formalized in the “WRITE digital archive”, that is the semantic web digital archive of the WRITE project (G.A. 949645). Each file contains the metadata related not only to the artwork(s) itself, but also to its author(s), and Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features). The artworks were selected from works included in the archive as the most representative Chinese graffiti in Shanghai and Chengdu, using calligraphy and Chinese characters. The data, here provided in a machine-readable format, are already described in a discursive way in the related publication.