Publisher of the data.bnf.fr website

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Address : Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris cedex 13

Tel : 33 (0)1 53 79 59 59

Publishing director

Mr Gilles Pécout, President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Host of the data.bnf.fr website

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Address : Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris cedex 13

Data accessible on the data.bnf.fr website

Since 1 January 2014, BnF has placed its descriptive metadata (bibliographic and authority data) under the State's Open Licence. Use of this metadata is free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged and the date of retrieval is indicated.

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LMost of the information on this site comes from the BnF's General Catalogue. It has been included in order to comply with the BnF's mission of cataloguing and providing access to as many of its collections as possible, as codified in article R341-2 of the French Heritage Code. Consequently, deleting this information or removing it from BnF's online catalogues would contradict its missions.

According to Article 5 of the French Data Protection Act (1978 Act as amended), compliance with this legal obligation authorises the processing of authors' personal data, even in the absence of their prior consent. This exception is also provided for by the European regulation on the protection of personal data of 27 April 2016.

However, the subjects of these records have a right of access and rectification by contacting the Metadata Department, Bibliothèque nationale de France, quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13, e-mail: data[at]bnf.fr.

The images displayed on data.bnf.fr come from two distinct sources, each subject to a different regime:

1. those originating from Gallica are governed by Gallica's own terms and conditions, which can be consulted on the Gallica website ;
2. images from Wikimedia Commons each have their own licence, defined by the users who uploaded them to the Wikimedia Commons portal. If you wish to use them, it is up to you to check the conditions of use for each image from Wikimedia.

Credits

Software used: CubicWeb

CubicWeb is a free platform for developing semantic web applications, published under the LGPL licence.
As part of the project, the software will be used to :

• extract and integrate data from heterogeneous sources and in a variety of formats (CSV, MARC, Dublin Core, EAD-XML, RDF),

• merge, align and group them in an SQL database,

• generate the pages you want in any format: HTML, JSON, RDF-XML or PDF.

It is based on the RQL (Relation Query Language) query language, similar to the W3C's SPARQL language, and on the Python.

CubicWeb is the winner of the Dataconnexions 2013 competition, organised by Etalab, the mission under the authority of the Prime Minister for the opening up of public data.

Page What to ask data.bnf.fr?

This page presenting the content of the site's entity pages has been designed based very freely on the instructions for use of the database of female composers CLARA, published by the Association Présences Féminines : https://www.presencecompositrices.com/que-demander-a-clara.