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

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage

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

Pattern for RDF URIs

https://d-nb.info/gnd/$1

Example RDF URI

https://d-nb.info/gnd/117145750

Contact

Missing Contact

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (4)

NFDI4Culture Collection NFDI4Objects Collection NFDI4Memory Collection Text+ Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 5 mappings to external registries with 5 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 117145750 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Gemeinsame Normdatei. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.