New York University Catalog (BETA)

About Share-VDE

Share-VDE (SVDE) is a library-driven initiative which brings together the bibliographic catalogues and authority files of a community of libraries in a shared discovery environment based on linked data.

Learn more about SVDE on our Wiki site

Find here the Share-VDE Statement and the Executive Summary

Read about the Share Family Linked Data Ecosystem

See a list of the institutions involved in the initiative

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Data summary

The original data of the following institutions have been converted to BIBFRAME and loaded to the portal:

  • Duke University bibliographic data
  • Library of Congress authority and bibliographic data
  • National Library of Finland authority and bibliographic data
  • National Library of Norway authority and bibliographic data
  • New York University bibliographic data
  • Smithsonian Institution bibliographic data
  • Stanford University Libraries bibliographic data
  • University of Alberta Libraries bibliographic data
  • University of Pennsylvania bibliographic data

Total number of each entity type in the system (the look up is done in real time):