Open or Linked Library Data

Open or Linked Library Data

1. Konstanz University Library (Germany) Relicenses their Data Under CC0 (MARC Data)

2. Cambridge University Library Releases Some Data

This dataset consists of MARC 21 output in a single file, comprising around 180000 records. There is some work to be done to tidy up the data – details of this are available at:http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/trac/wiki/datatriage. New datasets will be shared as they become available.

More info about both sources in this blog post from the Open Knowledge Foundation.

3. German National Library Publishes the German Library Authority Files as Linked Data (via the W3C-Public-Esw-Thes List)

The German National Library (DNB) has published the German library authority files as linked data. The dataset consists of 1.8 Mill differentiated persons from the PND (Personennamendatei, Name authority file), 187.000 subject headings from the SWD (Schlagwortnormdatei, Subject headings authority file), 1.3 Mill corporate bodies from the GKD (emeinsame Krperschaftsdatei, Corporate Body Authority file), and 51,000 classes from the German translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

For information: https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS.