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The Gemeinsame Normdatei (translated as Integrated Authority File, also known as the Universal 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.
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The Integrated Authority File (GND) is a service facilitating the collaborative use and administration of authority data. These authority data represent and describe entities, i.e. persons, corporate bodies, conferences and events, geographic entities, topics and works relating to cultural and academic collections. Libraries in particular use the G...
The GND is cooperatively managed by the German National Library, all library networks of the German-speaking countries and their participating libraries, the German Union Catalogue of Serials, and many other institutions. This GND-Kooperativeis open to accepting new partners bound by the same shared goals and tasks. The Committee for Library Standa...
Until now, the GND has been fundamentally geared towards use by libraries. In future, the GND-Kooperativewishes to extend the circle of users and open itself to various users in the spheres of culture and academia: a cross-domain product is to be created on the basis of a development programme lasting several years. More about development of the GN...
The records of the GND are curated and provided by the members of the GND cooperative and associated institutions. To find the authority records either as a single ID or in selections various applications and services are offered by the partners in the GND cooperative. Find all of them introduced: https://gnd.network/Webs/gnd/DE/Entdecken/entdecken...
We make the GND authority data publicly accessible in various formats and through various channels. Both individual data records and the entire data set are freely available at no charge under "Creative Commons Zero" (CCO 1.0) license terms. 1. Full copies available through WWW/SFTP servers in MARC 21, MARC21-XMLformats 2. Full copies available thr...
The GND (Integrated Authority File) is the largest collection of cultural and research authority data in the German-speaking countries. Originally used as a work tool in libraries its importance as a central network hub is growing as the process of digital transformation progresses.
The Integrated Authority File (GND) is a service that allows authority files to be collaboratively managed and utilized. The employees of the institutions involved in the GND create and update authority records based on common rules and an agreed-upon editorial concept.
GND stands for Gemeinsame Normdatei (Integrated Authority File) and offers a broad range of elements to describe authorities. The GND originates from the German library community and aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in the library world. Description Document 2024-03-12. This version.
Mar 28, 2019 · The Integrated Authority File (GND) is an authority file for Persons, Corporate bodies, Conferences and Events, Geographic Information, Topics and Works. It is used above all for the cataloguing of literature by libraries, but it is also increasingly being deployed in archives, museums, projects and web applications.
GND stands for “Gemeinsame Normdatei”, or Integrated Authority File. Originally, the word “Gemeinsam” (“integrated”, but also “together”, “collaboratively”, etc.) related to the merger of previously separate authority files. Today, GND stands for collaborative working, collectively setting standards and for the communal preservation of the GND.
