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Leipzig: Thursday, 23 October

Thursday, 23 October 2025 the German Museum of Books and Writing and the museum reading room will be closed due to an event.

Leipzig: 30.10.to 03.11.2025

Leipzig, 30.10.2025 to 03.11.2025:The multimedia/periodical reading room and the map reading room are closed from 30.10 to 03.11.

Leipzig: 31 October 2025 (Reformation Day )

Friday, 31 October 2025: The German National Library in Leipzig will be closed. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Explanatory videos

To get started, you can watch our explanatory videos on working with DNBLab. We introduce you to DNBLab and show you how to access our data and free objects via interfaces and then analyse them.

Tutorials

We provide online coding tutorials (Jupyter Notebooks) for analysing and working with our open-access items.

How can I access and use Jupyter notebooks?

Instructions 419kB, PDF - Not barrier-free file.


How can I access data through the OAI interface?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

How can I access data through the SRU interface?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

Try a MARC title analysis

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

How can digitised tables of contents be accessed and analysed?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as necessary (only available in German).

How can data be prepared and visualised?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

How can audio files be accessed and analysed?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

How can data be prepared and enriched with Open Refine?

Please use the static version to read the tutorials. You must use the interactive version if you wish to actively execute the code in the tutorials and make changes as required (only available in German).

Handouts

Here you will find useful overviews and compilations to our data as handouts on various topics (available only in German):

Last changes: 22.02.2024
Short-URL: https://www.dnb.de/librarylabtutorials
Contact: lab@dnb.de

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