The Gemeinsame Normdatei (Integrated Authority File) or GND is an international authority file for person names, subject headings and corporate bodies. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives and museums. The GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners.

Prefix

gnd

Keywords

culture knowledge and information systems social science

Links

Homepage @gndnet

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Gemeinsame Normdatei should match this regular expression:
^[0-9X\-]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

117145750   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Gemeinsame Normdatei should match this regular expression:
^gnd:[0-9X\-]+$

Example CURIE

gnd:117145750

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

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE gnd:117145750 is used to demonstrate the provides available for gnd. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.