hbz Union Catalog

The raw open data of the hbz library catalog is daily updated and consists of dumps from the German hbz Union Catalog consisting of ca. 19 million records. The data is licensed as CC0.

Note: We also provide a Linked Open Data Dump at http://thedatahub.org/dataset/lobid-resources .

The record format is described here(German).

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Data and Resources

Dump of the hbz union catalog.XML
The big zip file (~7GB) consists of ~19M XML records stored in one zip...

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The updates of the Open Data from the hbz ...HTML
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Example of mab2 xml recordmabxml
Example using our API. Shows the entry of...

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/Recently published Open Data exports
Author	North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center
Maintainer	North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center
Version	2012-08-15
Last Updated	July 27, 2017, 08:54 (UTC)
Created	June 10, 2010, 12:22 (UTC)
publishingInstitution	http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-605
records	20000000