Integrated Authority File

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Gemeinsame Normdatei
GND: Screenshot of the
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AcronymGND
OrganisationDNB
Introduced5 April 2012 (2012-04-05)
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The Gemeinsame Normdatei (translated as Integrated Authority File, also known as the Universal Authority File) or GND is an international

Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence.[1]

The GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in

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 Körperschaftsdatei (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]

Types of GND high-level entities

There are six main types of GND entities:[3]

Typ German (official) English (translation)
p Person person
k Körperschaft corporate body
v Veranstaltung event
w Werk work
s Sachbegriff topical term
g Geografikum geographical place name

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