---
id: "bnf_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["publishing", "objectids"]
country: ["FR"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/bnf_id"
---

# Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (`bnf_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of an authority or bibliographic record in the catalogue of the National Library of France: eight or nine digits and a check character, as in ark:/12148/cb<id>.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Publishing and print (publishing), Objects identifiers (objectids)
- Countries: France (FR)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{8,9}[0-9bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz]$
```

## Examples

- `124343565` — dinosaur
- `11865672n` — Ukraine

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P268`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France>
- doc: <https://catalogue.bnf.fr/>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P268>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/bnf_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/FR/publishing/bnf_id.yaml>