Would you like to learn more about working with our data and free objects?

We have collated a few examples that show some of the many ways in which our data can be analysed and visualised for scientific and research purposes. Take your inspiration from us and use open source code in GitHub for your own research project.

We look forward to hearing about your work and would welcome your assistance in expanding our range of practical examples! Please don’t hesitate to contact us on lab@dnb.de if you have any questions.

Applications and demos

DNB Data Explorer

The Data Explorer visualises links in the German National Library’s data records.

DNB Data Explorer, GitHub

DNBVIS

The DNBVIS project focused on the question of how to virtually stroll through a library and explore its holdings. As part of the research collaboration “Visualising bibliographic data and content” between the German National Library and Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, these questions were explored, and a prototype developed in 2017.

Prototype (works with Chrome and Firefox); Github-Repository Scripts, Prototype

GND Dashboard

The GND Dashboard was created as part of GNDCon II and allows users to interactively explore the GND. Here you can find statistical analyses of the GND and its links with the German National Library’s bibliographic data.

GND Dashboard, GitHub

BibSonomy

The BibSonomy Genealogy is part of the social bookmarking platform BibSonomy and aims to create a free genealogy of the sciences in Germany. Doctoral students can allocate themselves to their doctoral supervisors and jointly manage and depict other academic relationships and publication data. This can be used to create a genealogy of the research being conducted at German universities. The data are drawn from the catalogue of the German National Library.

BibSonomy

The children’s and young adults literature bot

The children’s and young adults literature bot (KJL-Bot) collects new German-language releases for children and young adults from selected publishers and brings them together on one searchable website. The data base is the German National Library’s catalogue.

KJL-Bot GitHub

“Mapping German Fiction in Translation” Webapplication

The web application provides a model visualisation of translations of works by German-speaking authors catalogued at the German National Library. Along with information such as the number of titles and target languages, a click on the map allows you to view the language, publisher and title for each translation.

Webapplikation Dataverse Poster

DNBVIS_frodiss

DNBVIS_frodiss is an exemplary application developed by the German National Library that visualises our data set of "Free online university publications". It provides insights into our collection of more than 302,000 open access online dissertations and uses multi-layered interactive graphics to present it by publication year, discipline, subject category, place of publication, university and language.

DNBVIS_frodiss GitHub

Exile monographs App

The prototype serves to visualise research questions that are frequently asked with regard to the collection of exile monographs held by the German Exile Archive 1933–1945. It was created during an internal hackathon held at the DNB and provides initial responses to questions such as: Where did exile monographs originate? How are exile monographs distributed between places and countries of publication? Where and when were most exile monographs written? Which are the most remote places of publication?

App GitHub

Code examples and Jupyter Notebooks

American Guild - Network Data

The objective of the project, which was developed as part of the Coding Da Vinci 2020 hackathon, was to visualise exile networks using the communication channels of an exile and aid organisation. The archive of the German Academy in Exile/American Guild for German Cultural Freedom contains 968 personal files. Questionnaires, résumés and correspondence from many parts of the world have been preserved. With grants awarded to recipients such as Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, John Heartfield, Egon Erwin Kisch, Joseph Roth, Anna Seghers and Arnold Zweig, the archive is a “Who’s Who” of German-speaking émigrés. The data base is the data set "American Guild for German Cultural Freedom” held by the German Exile Archive 1933–1945, which was made available especially for the hackathon.

GitLab

Apples and pears

The fact that cultural data are suitable for more than just data analyses is revealed by the Apples and Pears project, which was developed as part of the Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon. In this compilation of mini games, which is based on the bookseller portraits contained in the DNBLab, players can immerse themselves in the lives of fruit

GitHub , Project description

Data lab

Digital humanities are growing increasingly important in the fields of the humanities and cultural studies. Learn the basics of Python and gain an insight into how cultural data can be analysed.

Entry into GitHub, Data analysis in GitHub

Discover the Integrated Authority File (GND)

Here you can find documents on bibliographic rules (RDA and GND) and tools for experimenting with GND data.

GitHub

Love and death at the German National Library

The catalogue of the German National Library becomes a research object. In this study, a framework was developed for examining certain aspects of the catalogue using examples from novels.

Love and death at the German National Library (only available in German), GitHub

R-based interface search of the DNB data

Example of an automated search of the German National Library’s SRU interface using the programming language R.

GitHub