German: Signatur

A string of characters consisting of numbers and/or letters which is affixed to a physical media work and entered into the catalogue data for that work. Libraries have different ways of assigning call numbers depending on their shelving systems and any other information required to identify and find works specifically at that location.

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German: Sammelauftrag

The German National Library’s statutory task of collecting and indexing Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage and preserving it for posterity. The collection mandate is rooted in the Law Regarding the German National Library (DNBG) and encompasses all physical and non-physical texts, images and sound recordings published in Germany or in the German language, translated from German or relating to Germany that have been published since 1913.

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German: Contextual Query Language
Abbreviation: CQL

A formal language used for search queries in databases, e.g. in the DNB catalogue or through an SRU interface.

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Abbraviation: CC licenses
German: Creative-Commons-Lizenzen

Various pre-prepared licence contracts from the non-profit organisation Creative Commons that provide the copyright holders with a non-bureaucratic method of assigning third parties the right to share, use or process the work without the third party having to expressly request permission; once granted, these licences cannot be revoked. The German National Library uses and grants such “CC“ licences; for example, it makes available its national bibliographic data and all authority data under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0).

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See also:

• Mapping

See also:

• Mapping