Integrated Authority File
Parts of this article (those related to Types of GND high-level entities) need to be updated.(February 2018) |
Acronym | GND |
---|---|
Organisation | DNB |
Introduced | 5 April 2012 |
Example | 7749153-1 |
Website | d-nb |
The Gemeinsame Normdatei (translated as Integrated Authority File, also known as the Universal Authority File) or GND is an international
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The GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in
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) |
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p | Person | person |
k | Körperschaft | corporate body |
v | Veranstaltung | event |
w | Werk | work |
s | Sachbegriff | topical term |
g | Geografikum | geographical place name |
See also
References
- ^ www
.dnb .de /EN /Professionell /Standardisierung /GND /gnd _node .html Integrated Authority File (GND) - ^ GND Ontology – Namespace Document Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, version 2012-06-30.
- ^ „Entitätencodierung – Vergaberichtlinien“ (pdf)
External links
Wikidata has the property:
- GND ID (P227) (see uses)
- Information pages about the GND from the German National Library
- Search via OGND (Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg)
- Bereitstellung des ersten GND-Grundbestandes Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine DNB, 19 April 2012
- From Authority Control to Linked Authority Data Presentation given by Reinhold Heuvelmann (German National Library) to the ALA MARC Formats Interest Group, June 2012