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Leipzig: Thursday, 23 October

Thursday, 23 October 2025 the German Museum of Books and Writing and the museum reading room will be closed due to an event.

The German National Library (DNB) offers metadata in a variety of export formats in UTF-8 decomposed character encoding.

You can choose between various access options:
DNB catalogue, Data Shop, ZDB catalogue, HTTP content negotiation, DNB SPARQL Service (BETA) (only available in German), SRU, OAI-PMH, WWW-/SFTP server

The following overview shows how you can obtain bibliographic data, holdings data, authority data and address data in the required format.

German National Library (DNB):
bibliographic and holdings data

Bibliographic data (DNB)
FormatDNB
catalogue
Data Shop
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21xx
MARC21-xmlxxxxx
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xxx
RDF (Turtle)xxx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
CSVx(upon
request)
DNB Casual (oai_dc)xxx(upon
request)
MODS-xmlxxx
HTMLx
Holdings data (DNB)
FormatDNB
catalogue
Data Shop
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC21-xml (holdings)x

MARC21plus-xml

(incl. bibliographic data)

(upon request)x(upon
request)

MARC21plus-1-xml

(incl. bibliographic data)

(upon
request)

Integrated Authority File (GND): authority data

Authority data (GND)
FormatDNB
catalogue
Data Shop
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21xx
MARC21-xmlxxxxx
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xxx
RDF (Turtle)xxx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
HTMLx
Entity Facts (GND)
FormatEntity Facts
service (API)
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (JSON-LD)xx
Cross-concordances (GND)
FormatDNB
catalogue
Data Shop
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (RDF/XML)x
RDF (JSON-LD)x
RDF (Turtle)x
N-Triplesx

German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB):
bibliographic and holdings data

Bibliographic data (ZDB)
FormatZDB
catalogue
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21x
MARC21-xmlxxxx
MARC21plus-xml
(incl. holdings)
x(upon
request)
MARC21plus-1-xml
(incl. holdings information for interlibrary lending)
xx(upon
request)
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxxx
RDF (JSON-LD) xx
RDF (Turtle)xx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
DNB Casual (oai_dc)xx(upon
request)
HTMLx
Holdings data (ZDB)
FormatZDB
catalogue
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
MARC 21 (holdings)x
MARC21-xml (holdings)xx
MARC21plus-xml
(incl. bibliographic data)
x(upon
request)
MARC21plus-1-xml 
(incl. bibliographic data)
xx(upon
request)

German ISIL-Directory

Address data and information on packages of electronic resources (virtual library)
FormatGerman
ISIL-Agency
HTTP
content
negotiation
SRUOAI-PMHWWW-/SFTP server
RDF (RDF/XML)xxxxx
RDF (JSON-LD)xxx
RDF (Turtle)xxx
HDTx
N-Triplesx
PicaPlus-xmlxxx(upon
request)
HTMLx

Terms of use and provision

Detailed information on terms of use and provision is given here.

News

Last changes: 15.10.2025
Short-URL: https://www.dnb.de/metadataaccess
Contact: metadatendienste@dnb.de

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