Common Authority File

Article

July 6, 2022

Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) is an authority postal register that is operated and maintained by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) with all the German library associations, Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund (obv) and Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek in collaboration. From 19 April 2012, GND replaces the former Personennamendatei (PND), Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD), Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (GKD) and Deutsches Musikarchiv (DMA-EST-Datei) and includes persons, companies, events, geographical data and concepts. Through the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) project, GND is linked to other national authority records via concordance files.

Basis

The aim of GND is to connect the many different resources and sources of information that libraries and other cultural institutions in the German-speaking area offer. Datasets that have been transferred unchanged from the previous authority registers to GND have the same key values as before, now in the identifier GND Number. Duplicates are coordinated and datasets are successively prepared for the semantic web. GND uses the RDA regulations and is based on the exchange format MARC 21 authority.

Content and scope

At the time the Gemeinsame Normdatei was introduced, the register contained 9,493,860 data sets of the following entity types: 4,456,000 personal names («not individualized», ie without type designation) 2,650,000 persons ("individualized", type p) 1,145,000 companies, legal entities and the like (type k) - Körperschaften 571,000 events and congresses (type v) - Veranstaltungen 286,000 geographical data (type g) 200,000 technical terms (type s) - Subject terms 187,000 works (type w) - for example for the work Gemeinsame Normdaten in «Autoritetspost» at the bottom of this article.

References

Applied literature

Eva-Maria Gulder: The Common Standard File (GND). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Normdatenredaktion), September 2011. (pdf-file)

External links

(de) Official Website Search OGND (a service of Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg) Search DNB-Portal (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) Common Standard File (GND) Filed January 15, 2013 at Wayback Machine. and BSZ Wiki GND-MARC Format, Version 1.1 (as of August 15, 2011) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is Linked Data Service