Culturegraph

Culturegraph is a service that links and facilitates access to metadata in the German and Austrian library networks and the German National Library. Culturegraph thus provides an inter-network platform for services and projects relating to data analysis and data networking.

The service concept involves the opening of scattered, closed data sources to facilitate the cross-linking of bibliographic data, thesauruses, classifications and authority data. Data analysis processes such as clustering, classification and statistical evaluations can for example be used to compare data, transfer cataloguing information relating to similar works, or obtain information from external sources to enrich data records.

It is already possible to display clusters of similar works in order to facilitate the adoption of content cataloguing data from other items in the cluster. Work is still under way on matching Culturegraph and ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) data with the aim of using the latter to supplement entries in the Integrated Authority File.

Detailed information on Culturegraph is available here.