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The Personennamendatei or PND (translated as Name Authority File) is an authority file of people, which served primarily to access literature in libraries. The PND has been built up between 1995 and 1998 and was published by the German National Library (DNB) until 2012. For each person, there is a record with their name, birth and occupation connected with a unique identifier, the PND number.

The PND comprises more than two million entries and is comparable with the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF). Since April 2012, the PND (which have since been discontinued) is part of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (aka Integrated Authority File).

For the exchange of name records, there is a separate machine exchange format for libraries called MAB-PND.

See also

• Library of Congress

Further reading

• Rinn, Reinhard (1994). "Das Projekt Personennamendatei (PND-Projekt)". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 41: 543. ISSN 0044-2380.
• Rinn, Reinhard (1995). "Die überregionale Normdatei für Personennamen (PND). Bericht zum Projektstand September 1995". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 42: 617. ISSN 0044-2380.
• Fabian, Claudia (1995). "Entwicklung und Aufbau der Personennamendatei in Deutschland. Bericht über Konzeption und Realisierung seit 1989". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 42: 605. ISSN 0044-2380.
• Schmidt, Ronald Michael (1997). "Die Anwendung der überregionalen Personennamendatei in Verbundsystemen". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 44: 117. ISSN 0044-2380.
• Wiechmann, Brigitte (1999). "Individualisierungstest in Der Deutschen Bibliothek". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 46 (3). ISSN 0044-2380.
• Hengel, Christel (2003). "Normdaten und Metadaten. Die Idee eines Internationalen Authority File". Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (in German). 50: 210–214. ISSN 0044-2380.
• Teichmann, Katrin (2003). Anwendung der Normdaten Der Deutschen Bibliothek in der Museumsdokumentation. Am Beispiel der Porträtsammlung im Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig (University publication) (in German).
• Meßmer, Gabriele (2003-02-12) [2003-02-10]. "The German Name Authority File (PND) in the Union Catalogue: principles experiences and costs". Authority control. Definizione ed esperienze internazionali. Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 10-12 febbraio 2003 [Authority Control: Reflections and Experiences. Florence Italy. 10–12 February 2003.] (PDF) (in Italian and English). ISBN 88-8453-110-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-09-27. (5 pages)

External links

• Information pages of the DNB about the PND (Wayback Machine)