Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “New Forms of Calligraphy in Contemporary China” (KERVAN - International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies, vol. 28 No. 2 2024, DOI https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/11615). It collects the metadata descriptions of the main artworks analysed in the publication as formalised 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), Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features), and, if any, related exhibition(s), artwork(s), and literary work(s).The artworks were selected from a large number of works included in the archive as the most representative of the new forms of calligraphy emerged in contemporary China.