Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “Chinese Calligraphy Between Artistic Contaminations and New Expressive-Communicative Languages: The Case of Wang Dongling’s Experimental Ink Movement” (Italian Association for Chinese Studies. Selected Papers 5, Venezia: Cafoscarina). 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 jsonld file contains the metadata related to the artwork(s)/ itself/themselves, its author(s), its Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features), and, if any, related exhibition(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 ink calligraphic art by Wang Dongling. The dataset also includes the transcription of the artist’s interviews and the video cited in the publication.