Integrated Authority File
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The Integrated Authority File is a German reference database that organizes and standardizes names of people, organizations, and subjects to help libraries and researchers find information consistently and accurately. It matters because it ensures that whether you're searching for a historical figure, a company, or a topic, you'll get reliable results across different library systems and databases.
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The Gemeinsame Normdatei (translated as Integrated Authority File) or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives and museums. The GND is managed by the German National Library (German: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; DNB) in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence.
The GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in library classification, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an ontology intended for knowledge representation in the semantic web, available in the RDF format.