Metadatenservices

Together with the German National Library, the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) operates the Library Service Center as a data clearing house for all institutions that supply metadata to the German Digital Library in the METS/MODS and MARC 21 formats. Data clearing includes

• a detailed validation of the data provided with regard to the data format used and compliance with the respective application profile for the DDB: METS/MODS, MARCXML
• Comprehensive error reporting
• Automated correction of the data where necessary and possible
• ingesting into the DDB portal

If you would like to publish your institution's data on digitized material in the DDB, please register with the German Digital Library first. The specialist unit will then contact you and plan all further steps.

If you would like to contact the specialist unit for other reasons, you can reach us at bibliothek@deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

Together with the Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL) and the GBV's Central Library Network, the SUB Göttingen operates a number of databases with a focus on book history. This includes, for example, international databases such as the Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB), the most comprehensive record of European book production up to approx. 1830, the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) or the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), national bibliographical directories such as the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN), but also highly specialized directories such as Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), the Scottish Booktrade Index (SBTI) or the CERL Thesaurus, a database that compiles standard data on persons, corporate bodies, printers and places of printing from over 70 international standard files.

The SUB contributes its many years of expertise in the analysis, enrichment and publication of metadata.

You can reach the Data Conversion Group at convert@gbv.de

The Competence Center Interoperable Metadata (KIM), a working group of DINI e.V., sees itself as an information and communication platform for metadata users and developers.

Colleagues from the GLAM field come together here in various sub-working groups to discuss metadata-related topics, exchange best practices or work together on the development of standards.

KIM is open to all interested parties. Participation does not require membership and does not entail any formal obligations. At the public working group meetings that take place twice a year, those present can participate in the planning of activities and events. Once a year, usually in April or May, KIM also organizes a small conference.

Further information can be found on the DINI website.