RDF-Dumps Release 2/2014 of the Integrated Authority File (GND) and the bibliographic data from the German National Library (DNB) are available for download

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Dear Sir or Madam,



The updated RDF dumps of the Integrated Authority File (GND) and the bibliographic data from the German National Library (DNB) are available for download [1]. For details of the format changes in release 2/2014, please refer to the announcement [2]. For information about the Linked Data Service of the German National Library see [3]. The GND Ontology which is effective since 15th May 2014 is provided at [4].

All authority data of the GND have been provided free of charge for use under Creative Commons Zero conditions (CC0 1.0) [5]. As of the end of January 2014 some geographical authority records contain unchanged coordinates from the database GeoNames [6], which can also be reused under Creative Commons Zero conditions since June 2014.

For further questions you can reach us by email at datendienste@dnb.de<mailto:datendienste@dnb.de>.



[1] http://datendienst.dnb.de/cgi-bin/mabit.pl?userID=opendata&pass=opendata&cmd=login


[2] http://www.dnb.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/DNB/service/rundschreiben20140220AenderungenRdfXmlGndEN.pdf


[3] http://www.dnb.de/EN/lds


[4] http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#


[5] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/


[6] http://www.geonames.org/




Yours sincerely,

on behalf of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library)

Heike Eichenauer


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