KZK
Number of all items (including items describing entities with abbreviations):
6,005
Introduction
Database of Abbreviations in Librarianship and Information Fields (also known as KZK) is one of the databases produced by the National Library of the Czech Republic, specifically by the Librarianship Institute.
Since the end of November 2023 this database is available as open data (under CC0).
In 2024 data were migrated from Aleph library system to this Wikibase instance.
Original data from Aleph (from June 2024) are available in MARCXML on the Information for Libraries web portal.
More details are available on a dedicated webpage.
Sample Queries
All abbreviations with their meanings
Entities with their abbreviations by start year
Entities with abbreviations by places
Images from Wikidata which illustrate individual entities with abbreviations
Sample Items
BR
CINIBA
ETH
The photographs are from Wikimedia Commons.
Documentation
Under construction.
Data Reuse
Data in this Wikibase including related documentation and queries is available under CC0. Although CC0 does not require attribution, we would very much appreciate it if you mention the National Library of the Czech Republic as a source of data in your project.
Feedback
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Webarchiv
This Wikibase is harvested by Webarchiv which is operated by the National Library of the Czech Republic:
- entry page;
- Q552 as a sample item (you can create similar links to view archived versions of other individual items from this Wikibase).