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Linked Open Data

  • British National Bibliography

Books and serials eligible for BNB. Models, schema and URI patterns available here. Updated monthly.

DATASET DATE SIZE DOWNLOAD
BNB LOD Books 2014-07 962,284 KB nt
BNB LOD Serials 2014-07 37,495 KB nt
BNB LOD Books 2014-07 952,206 KB rdfxml
BNB LOD Serials 2014-07 31,935 KB rdfxml
VoID Descriptions 2014-07 4 KB ttl

Search service: http://bnb.data.bl.uk
SPARQL editor: http://bnb.data.bl.uk/flint-sparql
SPARQL endpoint: http://bnb.data.bl.uk/sparql

Open Data (basic RDF/XML)

  • British National Bibliography

Full file, including Cataloguing-In-Publication records. Updated monthly.

DATASET DATE SIZE DOWNLOAD
BNB Basic 2014-07 605,267 rdfxml

Weekly files for new BNB records are also available here.

  • British Library Integrated Catalogue - Books

Books in our collections not eligible for BNB. Updated monthly.

DATASET DATE SIZE DOWNLOAD
BLIC Basic Books 2014-07 1,269,267 rdfxml


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