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The German National Library (DNB) offers different ways of obtaining metadata in a variety of export formats. All formats are offered in UTF-8 decomposed character encoding.

The following overview shows the different access options for bibliographic data, holdings data, authority data and address data in the required format:

German National Library (DNB):
bibliographic and holdings data

Bibliographic data (DNB)
FormatDNB catalogue
Data Shop
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21xx
MARC21-xmlxxxx
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xx
RDF (Turtle)xx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
CSVx(upon request)
DNB Casual (oai_dc)xxx(upon request)
MODS-xmlxxx
PDFx
Holdings data (DNB)
FormatDNB catalogue
Data Shop
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC21-xml (holdings)x

MARC21plus-xml

(incl. bibliographic data)

xx(upon request)

MARC21plus-1-xml

(incl. bibliographic data)

(upon request)

Integrated Authority File (GND): authority data

Authority data (GND)
FormatDNB catalogue
Data Shop
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21xx
MARC21-xmlxxxx
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xx
RDF (Turtle)xx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
Entity Facts (GND)
FormatEntity Facts
service (API)
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (JSON-LD)xx
Cross-concordances (GND)
FormatDNB catalogue
Data Shop
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (RDF/XML)x
RDF (JSON-LD)x
RDF (Turtle)x
N-Triplesx

German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB):
bibliographic and holdings data

Bibliographic data (ZDB)
FormatZDB catalogueSRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21x
MARC21-xmlxxx
MARC21plus-xml
(incl. holdings)
x(upon request)
MARC21plus-1-xml
(incl. holdings information for interlibrary lending)
xx(upon request)
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxx
RDF (JSON-LD) x
RDF (Turtle)x
HDTx
N-Triplesx
DNB Casual (oai_dc)xx(upon request)
Holdings data (ZDB)
FormatZDB catalogueSRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21 (holdings)x
MARC21-xml (holdings)xx
MARC21plus-xml
(incl. bibliographic data)
x(upon request)
MARC21plus-1-xml 
(incl. bibliographic data)
xx(upon request)

German ISIL and Library Code Directory

Address data and information on packages of electronic resources (virtual library)
FormatGerman ISIL- and
Library Codes Agency
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xx
RDF (Turtle)xx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
PicaPlus-xmlxxx(upon request)

Terms of use and provision

Detailed information on terms of use and provision is given here.

News

Last changes: 27.06.2024
Short-URL: https://www.dnb.de/metadataaccess
Contact: metadatendienste@dnb.de

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