Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “Chinese Calligraphy Goes Digital: Intersections Between Calligraphy and Digital Art” (in The Aesthetics of Chinese Writing: A Diachronic and Transcultural Perspective, L. Ottaviano, D. Caccin (eds.), Bloomsbury, 2026). 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 intersection between Chinese calligraphy and digital art in the contemporary panorama. The dataset also includes the transcription of two artist’s interviews, and the transcription and English translation of one video cited in the publication. The data, here provided in a machine-readable format, are already described in a discursive way in the related publication.