The data released by Universität zu Köln (Cologne University) last week
stirred up some interest here. While working on a new search software,
I rigged up a database from that stuff just for experimentation. Here it
is, for those who want to learn more about the data:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/a30/cologne.htm
The records haven't been exploited in entirety. Specifically, only
personal name authorities have been included, not corporate names,
subjects or other, like copy data. Not all descriptive fields are
included either. Not all special characters have survived although
the software works with UTF-8.
You can do a search or browse several indexes, like personal names,
title words, title phrases, authority forms of names, publishers,
series, ISBNs. (Pulldown menu on the upper right).
See how far you get - the interface is not all English :-(
(It's some 3.2 mio title records and 1.5 mio name authorities. The title
records include the authority id numbers only, not the names, but the
name index does make the real names searchable.)
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Mar 24 2010 - 08:38:34 EDT