Open Bibliographic Data Downloads¶
Informations about the most recent exports will be found in the hbz's public wiki: https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1802599.
In March 2010 the Cologne University Library, the Cologne University of Applied Sciences Library, the Cologne Public Library, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne Library and the Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate announced to publish their catalog data in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre. For more information take a look at their joint statement.
On this page you will find links to database exports of several library catalogs. Each database export is described as follows:
Source Database: The source database out of which the data was exported
Export Date: the date on which the data was exported out of the source database
Subset of Source Database (in case of a partial export): the statement of the properties of the exported subset
Format(s): format(s) in which the data is published
Format Documentation: link(s) to a documentation of the format(s)
Number of Records: statement of the number of exported records
File Format: the format, in which the export file is published
File Size: the size of the published file
File Checksum: the md5 checksum of the published file
Download-Link: link to the published file
Licence: License applied to the export
Comments: Additional information
Legal statement¶
All data that is available to download via this webpage is published under the Creative Commons licence CC0. The data is in the public domain, hence it belongs to all and may be used for any purpose without restrictions.
To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. This work is published from Germany.
The Exports¶
Informations about the most recent exports will be found in the hbz's public wiki: https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1802599.
Cologne University Library (USB) Catalog¶
The here described export was extracted from the hbz union catalog. An enriched export can be found on the Cologne University Library's website under http://opendata.ub.uni-koeln.de/.
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for USB holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 3042012 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 758MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | c8f7061dda651056566be0cd7271bc00 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-38.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
Cologne University of Applied Sciences Library Catalog¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for Cologne University of Applied Sciences Library holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 316047 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 99MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | d3e66cc560fcf20e85d750f81ec5dc29 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-832.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne Library Catalog¶
| Source Database | Academy of Media Arts Cologne Library Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-08 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records with material type "BOOK" |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 35616 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 6.7MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | 330d53e15263b92d441350677acdc739 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100308-DE-Kn185.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate Catalog (LBZ), PLB Speyer¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for LBZ PLB Speyer holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 868616 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 249MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | d8cd2b38cbd0041f2209eaa7c574e2a9 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-107.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate Catalog (LBZ), RLB Koblenz¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for LBZ RLB Koblenz holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 613576 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 189MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | 4224745bb6ce914680bf6db3112f6b61 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-929.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate Catalog (LBZ), BB Zweibrücken¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for LBZ BB Zweibrücken holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 83821 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 21MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | ccff8ebc53bb0ce44a4ecb9972c792c9 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-Zw1.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
Central Library of Sports Science of the German Sports University Cologne¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for Central Library of Sports Science holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 201.963 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 43MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | 5430b83e54d000d4e27710db06088fb2 |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-Kn41.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |
RWTH Aachen University Library Catalog¶
| Source Database | hbz Union Catalog |
| Export Date | 2010-03-12 |
| Subset of Source Database | Records for RWTH Aachen University Library holdings |
| Format(s) | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Format Documentation | hbz-Neutralformat |
| Number of Records | 1.230.180 |
| File Format | Gzipped Tarball |
| File Size | 352MB |
| File Checksum (md5) | |
| Download-Link | http://opendata.hbz-nrw.de/export/20100312-DE-82.tar.gz |
| Licence | |
| Comments | This export version contains no authority file numbers. These have been dereferenced during export. Future Exports will contain authority file numbers. |