Complete data from the BnF catalogues

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.