The National Bibliography Number (NBN), is a URN-based publication identifier system employed by a variety of national libraries such as those of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. They are used to identify documents archived in national libraries, in their native format or language, and are typically used for documents which do not have a publisher-assigned identifier.

Prefix

nbn

Links

Homepage

Contact

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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in National Bibliography Number should match this regular expression:
^(urn|URN):(nbn|NBN)(:[A-Za-z_0-9]+)*.+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

urn:nbn:fi:tkk-004781   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from National Bibliography Number should match this regular expression:
^nbn:(urn|URN):(nbn|NBN)(:[A-Za-z_0-9]+)*.+$

Example CURIE

nbn:urn:nbn:fi:tkk-004781

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier urn:nbn:fi:tkk-004781 is used to demonstrate the providers available for National Bibliography Number. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.