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Overview
The sets of German National Library's metadata and the authority data from the Integrated Authority Files (GND) on this site are updated regularly. They are provided free of charge and for free subsequent use.
Along with these data dumps, we also offer other selections of bibliographic data relating to individual digital collections in the DNBLab.
An overview of all available metadata as well as the different options of obtaining data is given here.
Complete sets
You can view the current data version after accessing the download link in the respective data description.
Full copy | Provision (update) | Format, encoding UTF-8 decomposed | Number of records/file size (zipped) |
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Integrated Authority File (GND) | February/March, June/July (cancelled 2024) October/November | MARC 21 MARC21-xml | approx. 9.6 million/approx 2 GB |
Integrated Authority File (GND) | February/March, June/July (cancelled 2024) October/November | RDF (RDF/XML) RDF (Turtle) RDF (JSON-LD) HDT file N-Triples | approx. 9.6 million/approx 1.5 GB |
Entity Facts | once a month | RDF (JSON-LD) | approx. 8.9 million/approx 1.2 GB |
Cross-concordances | October/November | RDF (RDF/XML) RDF (Turtle) RDF (JSON-LD) N-Triples | * |
* Contains only terminology-specific datasets from cross-concordances.
Some geographical authority data contains unchanged coordinates from the GeoNames database and has done so since the end of January 2014.
Full copy | Provision (update) | Format, encoding | Number of records/file size (zipped) |
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Bibliographic data of DNB* | February/March, June/July (cancelled 2024) October/November | MARC 21 MARC21-xml | approx. 31 million/approx. 10.3 GB |
Bibliographic data of DNB*/** | February/March, June/July (cancelled 2024) October/November | RDF (RDF/XML) RDF (Turtle) RDF (JSON-LD) HDT file N-Triples | approx. 29.8 million/approx. 4.9 GB |
* Contains records that are not part of Deutsche Nationalbibliografie (German National Bibliography).
** All bibliographic data that has been converted to RDF format.
Some bibliographic data contains class information from the Thema subject classification system for books; this has been the case since October 2015.
Full copy | Provision (update) | Format, encoding | Number of records/file size (zipped) |
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Bibliographic data of ZDB | March October/November | MARC 21 MARC21-xml | approx. 2.1 million/approx. 700 MB |
Bibliographic data of ZDB | March October/November | RDF (RDF/XML) RDF (Turtle) RDF (JSON-LD) HDT file N-Triples | approx. 2.1 million/approx. 350 MB |
ZDB holding data | March October/November | MARC 21 MARC21-xml | approx. 19.6 million/approx. 1.5 GB |
Address data (ISIL- and Library Code Directory) | March October/November | RDF (RDF/XML) RDF (Turtle) RDF (JSON-LD) HDT file N-Triples | approx. 20.900/approx. 4 MB |
Along with these data dumps, we also offer (theme-based) bibliographic data sets and open access digital object collections. You will find more information about these in the DNBLab.
Ongoing updates
Full copies can be regularly updated free of charge through the OAI interface as well as through the WWW and SFTP servers.
Archived full copies
Are you interested in archived full copies for research purposes?
The German National Library has been archiving full copies of its bibliographic data, the authority data of the Integrated Authority File (GND), its address data (ISIL and Library Code Directory) and the bibliographic and holdings data of the German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) every year since 2021.
If you are interested, please send an email to metadatendienste@dnb.de.
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Detailed information on terms of use and provision is given here.
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27.03.2024
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