Complete data from the BnF catalogues

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Dataset information

Catalog

Bibliothèque nationale de France catalog

Country of origin

France

Updated

2019.10.29 14:57

Created

2013.12.12

Available languages

English

Keywords

bibliotheque-nationale, bibliotheque, catalogue, bibliotheque-numerique, bibliographie-nationale, bibliographie, culture

Datasource

Official portal for European data link

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Dataset description

The Bibliothèque nationale de France has chosen to place its descriptive metadata (bibliographic and authoritative data) under the “open license” of the State, which allows its free re-use with obligation to mention the source, from 1 January 2014. The BnF thus confirms its inclusion in the opening movement of public data. The BnF disseminates several large datasets available in different forms: bibliographical and authoritative records in MARC from the general catalogue of the BnF; notices of the general catalog of the BnF in the form of APIs (SRU, XML); bibliographic records in Dublin Core (OAI-PMH) from the general catalogue of the BnF; the descriptions of digitised documents (OAI-PMH) from the general catalogue of the BnF and from the catalogue BnF archives and manuscripts.

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