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The German National Library offers free access to its bibliographic data and several collections of digital objects. As the central access point for presenting, accessing and reusing digital resources, DNBLab allows users to access our data, object files and full texts. The access is available by download and through various interfaces.

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Another offer: Jupyter notebook tutorial for beginners How can I access data through the SRU interface?

You can try out DNBLab from home as well as by using our stationary internet computers in our reading rooms.

If you are interested in automated analyses of protected full texts, images or AV media, we offer the opportunity of cooperation through our DH-Call once a year.

Events

DNBLab – Different ways to access our data Professional event

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How can you access our data, and which type of access is most suited to which purpose? After a general introduction to supply channels, we use Jupyter Notebooks to give a practical demonstration of how our interfaces can be queried automatically.

DNBLab: Free collections of digital objects

Explore our machine-readable data sets and free collections of digital objects.
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DNBLab: Interfaces

Memory modules in an IT server room Photo: Thomas Meyer / OSTKREUZ

Find out more about searching our freely accessible interfaces and how to compile your own sets of data and objects.
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DNBLab: Tutorials

Curious? Get involved! With the help of our beginner-friendly tutorials, we show you how to access and analyse our collections.
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DNBLab: Our data in practise

Depiction of a user-based research genealogy Source: BibSonomy Genealogie

Find out about the many different ways our data have already been analysed and visualised in the fields of science and research, and take a look at useful data-analysis scripts and tools.
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Last changes: 18.09.2024
Short-URL: https://www.dnb.de/librarylab
Contact: lab@dnb.de

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