Metadata of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
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Dataset information
Catalog
Country of origin
Updated
Created
2016.09.19
Available languages
German
Keywords
bibliographische-daten, geschichte, institutions, personen, persons, historisches-lexikon, glam, glam, glam, glam, history, bibliographie, openglam, openglam, openglam, openglam, authority-data
Datasource
Quality scoring
170
Dataset description
Different sets of meta-data are available concerning the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HDS), such as article lists for different categories and languages, authority files linking HDS ID with GND and VIAF, Geocoding information for more than 5000 HDS articles, bibliographic data included in all the articles of the German version, cross-reference information, as well as information about the authors of all the articles of the HDS.
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