German National Library – Authority Files (linked data)
A post from Lars Svensson announced the release of authority files from the German National Library:
The German National Library (DNB) has published the German library authority files as linked data. The dataset consists of 1.8 Mill differentiated persons from the PND (Personennamendatei, Name authority file), 187.000 subject headings from the SWD (Schlagwortnormdatei, Subject headings authority file), 1.3 Mill corporate bodies from the GKD (Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei, Corporate Body Authority file), and 51,000 classes from the German translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).
Library students should take particular note of the subject heading and Dewey Decimal Classification materials.
For topic mappers, another set of identifiers that can be mapped between the data sets shown by data cloud as well those that don’t use URIs as identifiers (the vast majority of data).
This will also be of interest to the linked data community.
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