---
id: "de_zdb_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["publishing"]
country: ["DE"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/de_zdb_id"
---

# ZDB ID (German Union Catalogue of Serials) (`de_zdb_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 a serial title (journal, newspaper, series, database) in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB), the union catalogue of serials and their holdings in German and Austrian libraries. It has up to seven digits, a hyphen and a check character, a digit or X. The regexp is the Wikidata format of property P1042.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Publishing and print (publishing)
- Countries: Germany (DE)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{1,7}-[\dxX]$
```

## Examples

- `125917-9` — Der Tagesspiegel
- `972196-4` — The Washington Post
- `1259179` (invalid example) — The hyphen before the check character is missing

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P1042`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор ZDB (сводный каталог периодики Германии): Номер записи о периодическом издании в сводном каталоге ZDB: до семи цифр, дефис и контрольный символ.
- de: ZDB-ID

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitschriftendatenbank>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1042>
- doc: <https://zdb-katalog.de/>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

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