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Statement of the National Library of the Czech Republic about publishing the following databases under CC0:

Publishing Databases Produced By the National Library of the Czech Republic Under a CC0 License (a press release, April 20th, 2022, PDF, 109 KB, in Czech only)

The National Library of the Czech Republic currently provides the following resources as open data:

data set

format

for download

via OAI-PMH *)

Czech National Bibliography


 

MARC21

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/cnb.xml.gz
(approx. 5 GB)

 

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=CNB&metadataPrefix=marc21 the complete set

Dublin Core

 

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=CNB&metadataPrefix=oai_qdcthe complete set

 

National Authority File

 

MARC21

National Authority File
(all records)

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut.xml.gz
(approx. 2.2 GB)

 

 

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=AUT&metadataPrefix=marc21 the complete set

Personal Name Authorities

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_ja.xml.gz
(approx. 1.9 GB)

Corporate Name Authorities

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_ka.xml.gz
(approx. 330 MB)

Topical Authorities

 

MARC21

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_ph.xml.gz
(approx. 100 MB)

Geographic Authorities

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_ge.xml.gz
(approx. 90 MB)

Chronological Authorities

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_ch.xml.gz
(approx. 700 kB)

Genre/Form Authorities

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_fd.xml.gz
(approx. 3.7 MB)

Conspectus

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_sk.xml.gz
(approx. 1.1 MB)

Uniform Titles

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/aut_un.xml.gz
(approx. 70 MB)

 

Directory of Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic


MARC21

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/adr.xml.gz

(approx. 27 MB)

 

Description of database structure (in Czech only)

 

 

Online Catalogue of the National Library of the Czech Republic

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/nkc.xml.gz
(approx. 10.2 GB)

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=NKC&metadataPrefix=marc21 – the complete set

Dublin Core

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=NKC&metadataPrefix=oai_qdc – the complete set

 

Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic

 

MARC21

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/skc.xml.gz
(approx. 27.2 GB)

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=SKC&metadataPrefix=marc21 – the complete set

Dublin Core

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=SKC&metadataPrefix=oai_qdc – the complete set

 

Articles from Czech Newspapers, Periodicals and Proceedings

 

MARC21

https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/anl.xml.gz
(approx. 7.3 GB)

https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=ANL&metadataPrefix=marc21 – the complete set

 

Online Catalogue of the Slavonic Library

 

MARC21 https://aleph.nkp.cz/data/slk.xml.gz
(approx. 1.9 GB)
https://aleph.nkp.cz/OAI?verb=ListRecords&set=SLK&metadataPrefix=marc21 – the complete set

 

Czech Explanatory Terminology Database of Library and Information Science

 

MARC21

https://ipk.nkp.cz/docs/databaze/ktd/view
(approx. 9.5 MB)
data from June 21st, 2024

Description of database structure (in Czech only)

 

Database of Abbreviations in Librarianship and Information Fields

 

MARC21

https://ipk.nkp.cz/docs/databaze/kzk/view
(approx. 12.4 MB)
data from June 21st, 2024

Description of database structure (in Czech only)

 

Database of Czech Librarians

 


MARC21

https://ipk.nkp.cz/docs/databaze/sck/view
(approx. 19.6 MB)
data from June 21st, 2024

Description of database structure (in Czech only)

*) Aleph's OAI-PMH implementation follows the specifications available from http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html with a single exception – individual records cannot be retrieved using the "GetRecord" function.

The XML files are not intended for direct reading by humans but for further machine processing. Their size is considerable; therefore, we do not recommend trying to open them directly in the web browser (and also avoid trying to open them on mobile phones and similar devices). Instead, first you should save them to your disk (usually using your right mouse button and selecting "Save Link As" or a similar option). Then you can decompress the downloaded files and save them with an XML extension. The file sizes mentioned above are those reflecting the decompressed files.

Unless otherwise specified, files for download are generated from current data once a week (each Monday).

Although the datasets are available under a CC0 license, you can consider mentioning the National Library of the Czech Republic as a source of data for your project.

Information on our datasets (including clarification on whether they contain personal data) can also be found on the Czech National Open Data Portal and on the data.europa.eu portal.

If you wish to learn more about our activities related to opening data, feel free to have a look at a list of publications and presentations on this topic and an overview of our collaboration with Wikidata.

Please also consider sharing with us – via a webform – how you have used the data and provide your feedback.

Contact Person:
Mgr. Lenka Maixnerová
Deputy Director for Library Collections and Services
+420 770 197 300
lenka.maixnerova@nkp.cz