ContentQuellen

ContentQuellen is a framework and platform for managing content sources, citations, and licensing in digital media, journalism, and research. It organizes content items, their sources, quotations, and associated licenses into a structured data model designed to support attribution, provenance, and license compliance throughout production workflows. The project emphasizes interoperability with content management systems and publishing pipelines and seeks to harmonize metadata standards across disciplines.

The architecture combines a core data model with modular components. Core entities include ContentItem, Source, Attribution, and License. The platform exposes REST and GraphQL interfaces, supports metadata schemas, and can export records in JSON-LD, BibTeX, and other common formats. It offers versioning, audit trails, role-based access control, and review workflows to support editorial governance and fact-checking.

In governance terms ContentQuellen provides provenance tracking for each item, including authorship, source links, timestamps, and license terms. It maps licensing terms to machine-readable representations and can integrate with licensing registries and fact-checking services. Data quality features include validation rules, deduplication, and confidence signals for sources.

Usage-wise, ContentQuellen is intended for newsrooms, libraries, research projects, and digital platforms that require clear attribution and licensing transparency. It aims to reduce licensing ambiguity and facilitate compliance, while acknowledging challenges such as license complexity, changing terms, and privacy considerations. The project is commonly distributed under an open license and governed by a community-driven process with guidelines for contribution and governance.