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The metadata of all NDB/ADB articles is additionally mapped to concepts of CIDOC-CRM excpressed according to webontology standards (Erlangen OWL).
Expressiveness is restricted due to missing granularity of formally representable statements.
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A reformulated ontology using concepts primarily of DuL / OULCE underlies a new mapping for our metadata.
Major changes: concepts under "data.deutsche-biographie.de/vocabulary" moved to "data.deutsche-biographie.de/ontology"; "data.deutsche-biographie.de/vocabulary/(Male|Female)" changed to "data.deutsche-biographie.de/ontology/genderclass".
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Owl Schema 2016
credits: Ingo Frank
User Interfaces:
The Linked Open Data Interface of the Neue Deutsche Biographie was a result of the LOD2 PUBLINK activity in cooperation with the AKSW group and the group of the Neue Deutsche Biographie at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Within this project meta-data about 46,000 biographies and related 42,000 additional people and 4,000 locations has been made available as Linked Data and RDF triple. We used the vocabulary of the German National Library for the GND and adapted it by a few additional classes and relations.
Each article identified by an SFZ-number (internal ID, f.i. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz68290.html) is linked with a RDF version of its metadata (resp. http://data.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz68290.rdf). All metadata had been mapped according to the GND-vocabulary and few own concepts.
In addition to the representation in RDF, we offer a OntoWiki instance to provide the ability for browsing an querying the dataset. With the help of the Relationshipfinder tool relations between two or more persons, may visualized using this SPARQL endpoint.
credits: Martin Brümer, Thomas Riechert
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Vocabulary 0.1 (Dez. 2011):
Example:
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We provide free and flexible access to the index underlying the website www.deutsche-biographie.de for users willing to learn the Lucene Query Language.
Use considerately, don't try to exceed the limits.
The preliminary API http://data.deutsche-biographie.de/beta/solr-open/ connects to a Solr-based Index.
Each entry is identified by an ID. Two pattern are used
sfz[A-Zo]?[0-9-]+
and
gnd[0-9X-]+
Returned fields parameter
fl
is predefined and fixed (as of 10-2015):
fl=id,defnam, defgnd, r_nam, r_bls, r_flr, bdisplay, ddisplay, bmin, bmax, dmin, dmax, r_nai, r_ndb, r_adb
| field | data type |
|---|---|
| defnam,defgnd,r_nam,r_bls,r_flr | string (defnam,r_nam follow a "surname, forename" pattern if applicable) |
| bdisplay,ddisplay | string with pattern YYYY|YYYY-MM-DD |
| bmin,bmax,dmin,dmax | int with pattern Y?YYYMMDD, years are expanded to a range: Y?YYY0101 TO Y?YYY1231 |
| r_ndb | boolean (true|false) - has biography in NDB |
| r_adb | boolean (true|false) - has biography in ADB |
| r_nai | boolean (true|false) - is mentioned in ADB or NDB |
Output parameter
wt=(xml|json|psv)
is not fixed and should be one of (defaults to xml), where wt=psv forces pipe separated output with serialised arrays.
Output parameter
start
defines the starting point of the result-set (default: 0) and
rows
define the length of a portion of a result-set (defualt: 10)
Queries can be constructed following the Solr Query Syntax. The syntax is roughly the same as for Lucene.
| sample queries | description |
|---|---|
q=id:sfz999
|
returns the predefined fields for entry "sfz999" |
q=id:sfz999&wt=json
|
returns the predefined fields for entry "sfz999" in JSON |
q=dmin:[1000101 TO 1200101]
|
returns entries with dmin between 100 CE and 120 CE |
q=bmax:[0 TO 17991231] AND r_ndb:true
|
returns persons born before 1800 with article in NDB |
q=bmin:[0 TO 17991231]
|
returns persons who could have been born before 1800, be reminded of uncertain cases stating "born end 18th/beginning 19th century" |
q=defnam:"Wolff, Julius" |
finds only exakt matches to the preferred name "Wolff, Julius" |
q=r_nam:"Wolff, Julius" |
finds only exakt matches to the variant name "Wolff, Julius" |
q=defnam:Wolff*J*&fl=defnam |
case sensitive search for all preferred names starting with "Wolff" and having a "J" in the right-hand part |
q=r_nam:Wolf* AND r_nam:J* |
case-insensitive seach for variant names having a string starting with "Wolf" and a string starting with "J" |
q=(r_bls:*Kaiserin* OR r_bls:*Königin*) AND
dmax:[1 TO 15003112] AND
r_ndb:1 AND
r_sex:2 |
search for the strings Kaiserin and Königin in biographical headline, limit to those died before the end of 1500, with an article in NDB and of female gender |
According to our licenses each result having
r_ndb or r_adb set true
refers to an article.
Articles can be downloaded by SFZ-ID from
http://data.deutsche-biographie.de/rest/{SFZ-ID}.xml
f.i.
http://data.deutsche-biographie.de/rest/sfz99.xml
A short description (in german) of elements occurring in fulltext-xml.
Since 1.9.2015 following licenses must be reviewed and respected
- articles of "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)", given in a
div@type="adb"
container: CC-BY-NC-SA attribution to "Deutsche Biographie",
- articles of "Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)" given in a
div@type="ndb"
container: CC-BY-NC-ND attribution to "Deutsche Biographie",
- basic metadata CC0.
The editorial board of the "Neue Deutsche Biographie" would like to be informed about any usage of data.
The export of meta-data into neo4j was planned as and still is a proof-of-concept. The preliminary model is based on the structure of the articles published successively in volumes. Other metadata is drawn from XML supposed to feed the index. This data should be deriveable from the Solr-API. There are only few types of relationships of persons extracted, most relations rely on co-occurance in a part of an article. The naming of Node- and Edge-types is still slightly confusing (as of 4/2022) and subject to change.
7/2023 - third export, new volume 27, only minor changes to model, tested in neo4j-5.9.0
4/2022 - second export, new volume 26, only minor changes, tested in neo4j-4.4.6
11/2017 - first export, tested in neo4j-3.3.0
The network of individual articles can be fetched in different formates and folded out to a certain extent here. An example would be:
queries against the database have to be formulated in Cypher:
The live-database was closed in 2017 due to lack of ressources. Check for csv-dumps.
the types/labels will be harmonized in the next release (2018).
Abschnitts and in case of families further ArtikelsFor beginners in Cypher several typical queries have been precomposed:
see helper forms.
This preview had been deactivated 2017 due to lack of resources.
By consuming multiple GND-Beacon files we aggregate relevant individual links to websites related to our person's dataset.
The aggregated links can be derived from the API.
If you are interested in this service and require an individual profile please contact us.
In order to facilitate GND-Beacon based linking we tested personal records of third party websites against the authority file GND. For a preliminary list see API.
Since 1.9.2015 following licenses must be reviewed and respected
- articles of "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)", given in a
div@type="adb"
container: CC-BY-NC-SA attribution to "Deutsche Biographie",
- articles of "Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)" given in a
div@type="ndb"
container: CC-BY-NC-ND attribution to "Deutsche Biographie",
- allmetadata CC0.
The editorial board of the "Neue Deutsche Biographie" would like to be informed about any usage of data.