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Vokabular: GND: Bodies and Conferences

Over 1.5 million corporate bodies and over 900,000 conferences/events in the German National Library's Integrated Authority File (GND).

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	GND Bodies and Conferences
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	The Common Authority File (GND) is an authority file for persons, corporate bodies, conferences, geographies, subject headings and works relating to cultural property and cultural and scientific collections that has been maintained by the German National Library in cooperation with all German-speaking library networks and many other institutions since 2012. Libraries in particular use the GND to index publications. Increasingly, archives, museums, cultural and scientific institutions as well as scientists in research projects are also working with the GND. There are currently ten million data records in the GND, including over 1.5 million corporate bodies and over 900,000 conferences/events.
(P887)?URL:	https://data.dnb.de/opendata/, https://explore.gnd.network/, http://www.lobid.org/product/lobid-gnd/, https://wiki.bsz-bw.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4886299
(P121)?Genre classification:	Authority file
(P15)?Medientyp:	Online resource, Electronic publication
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Association, Geography, Organisation, administrative history
(P936)?Object types:	Conference, Music, Religious organisation, Research project, religious organization, corporation, Q1195517
(P984)?Object type properties:	Alternative spelling, Biographical event, Classification/Taxonomy, Locality, Name, Relation

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	2.400.000 Word/spelling variant(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	German National Library, Frankfurt/Leipzig
(P518)?Technically realized by:	German National Library, Frankfurt/Leipzig
(P206)?Publisher:	—
(P153)?Postal address:	Adickesallee 1 | 60322 Frankfurt am Main | Deutschland
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:gnd-info@dnb.de

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Connection to authority control data, Data curation, Entity recognition, Identification and matching, Standardization
(P575)?Design features:	Standardized vocabulary with rules that can only be changed by an authorized committee
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms (Applies to the majority), Based on source terms (Applies (overall)), Technical terms have a date (Applies to the majority), The source terms have a dating (Applies to the majority), The source terms have georeferences (Applies to the majority), The source terms have references (Applies (overall)), The technical terms have a theoretical concept (Applies (overall)), The technical terms have georeferencing (Applies to the majority)
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource, Electronic publication
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by trained staff
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is long-term, permanently supported by an organization
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	—
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	German
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2012
(P222)?Date of publication:	2025
(P939)?Versioning:	Versioning takes place at the level of all individual components/items

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	—
(P573)?Target group:	Archive, Citizen Science, Library, Museum, Research project, Researcher

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	Exists, has been produced - Zitationsvorgabe: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Erfassungshilfen für Körperschaften und Konferenzen, https://wiki.dnb.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=90411359 - URL: https://wiki.dnb.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=90411359
(P978)?External tutorial:	Exists, has been produced - URL: https://www.dnb.de/DE/Professionell/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html
(P180)?License:	CC0 1.0 Universal

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	RDF database, RDF | Resource Description Framework
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible, Search results partially visible in online interface, Selective download possible
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource, Electronic publication
(P937)?Referencing method:	—
(P903)?Data format:	JSON, MARC 21, RDF | Resource Description Framework
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://lobid.org/gnd/api
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	—
(P995)?Services offered:	Advice - Notiz: Grafische Rechercheoberflächen (z.B. lobid, GND Explorer, DNB-Katalog, OGND, Advice - Notiz: Culturegraph
(P950)?Cite as:	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND Geografika, https://data.dnb.de/opendata/.

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Marius Wegener