From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German database of authority data
The
Gemeinsame Normdatei
(translated as
Integrated Authority File
) or
GND
is an international
authority file
for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from
catalogues
. It is used mainly for
documentation
in
libraries
and increasingly also by
archives
and
museums
. The GND is managed by the
German National Library
(German:
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
; DNB) in cooperation with various regional library networks in
German-speaking Europe
and other partners. The GND falls under the
Creative Commons Zero
(CC0) licence.
[1]
The GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in
library classification
, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an
ontology
intended for
knowledge representation
in the
semantic web
, available in the
RDF
format.
[2]
The GND became operational in April 2012 and integrates the content of the following authority files, which have since been discontinued:
- Personennamendatei
(PND) (Translation: Name Authority File)
- Gemeinsame Korperschaftsdatei
(GKD) (Translation: Corporate Bodies Authority File)
- Schlagwortnormdatei
(SWD) (Translation: Subject Headings Authority File)
- Einheitssachtitel-Datei des Deutschen Musikarchivs
(DMA-EST) (Translation: Uniform Title File of the German Music Archive)
It is referred to by identifiers named
GND-ID
.
At the time of its introduction on 5 April 2012, the GND held 9,493,860 files, including 2,650,000 personalised names.
[
citation needed
]
In July 2020 non-individualized files were deleted. In 2022, the GND held 9,370,736 files, including 5,937,788 personalised names.
[3]
The GND participates in the
Virtual International Authority File
(VIAF) project.
Types of GND high-level entities
[
edit
]
There are six main types of GND entities:
[4]
Typ
|
German (official)
|
English (translation)
|
p
|
Person
|
person
|
k
|
Korperschaft
|
corporate body
|
v
|
Veranstaltung
|
event
|
w
|
Werk
|
work
|
s
|
Sachbegriff
|
topical term
|
g
|
Geografikum
|
geographical place name
|
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
|
---|
International
| |
---|
National
| |
---|
People
| |
---|