The second virtual open day “Cataloguing, research, analysis (EFA23@DNB)” for information on our metadata and free collections of digital objects took place on 7 November 2023.

We invited you to find out about our metadata and free collections of digital objects and let us show you the variety of ways in which they can be used, analysed and visualised.

Programm

• 08:45 – 09:00
  Arrival

• 09:00 – 09:30
  Welcome to the German National Library!
  We will give you basic information on the German National Library, its history and (digital) collections. We will also present the programme to you.
  
  
• 09:30 – 10:30
  The German National Library’s metadata (formats)
  Which metadata formats should I use for which purpose? Which formats are available?
  
  
• 10:30 – 10:50
  Free collections of digital objects
  What free collections of digital objects, images and full texts will you find at the German National Library?
  
  
• 10:50 – 11:10
  Break
  
  
• 11:10 – 11:30
  Access to our data
  How can you access our data, and which type of access is most suited to which purpose? We have already preconfigured a number of access ports for you. What are they, and where can you find more information about them?
  
  
• 11:30 – 12:30
  Access special: Our open access interfaces
  Es gibt verschiedene Schnittstellen, um Daten und Inhalte zu nutzen. Welche sind das, welche Ausgabeformate gibt es, und was nutzt man für welchen Zweck?
  
  
• 12:30 – 13:15
  Lunch break
  
  
• 13:15 – 13:30
  Das DNBLab
  The DNBLab serves as a central point of access to our data and free content for anyone interested in text and data mining.
  
  
• 13:30 – 13:45
  Practical work with DNBLab
  The coding tutorials in DNBLab will help you get started with Jupyter Notebooks for machine queries and analyses even if you have no prior knowledge of programming
  
  
• 13:45 – 14:15
  "Coding Gender"
  You will get an insight into the construction of a diversity corpus (DisKo) as a basis for algorithmic text analysis.
  
  
• 14:15 – 14:30
  Break
  
  
• 14:30 – 15:30
  Visualising data
  How do I prepare data and visualise the results?
  
  
• 15:30 – 15:45
  Questions and feedback

Contact

lab@dnb.de