National Bibliography Number URN (URN:NBN)

ID urn_nbn

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Uniform Resource Name in the NBN namespace (RFC 8458): a persistent identifier that national libraries and their partners assign to digital publications, theses, conference proceedings and other documents. It starts with urn:nbn:, a two-letter ISO 3166 country code and a colon or hyphen; the rest follows the rules of the national library, often a sub-namespace and a serial number with a check digit. Resolvers such as nbn-resolving.org (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and urn.fi (Finland) turn it into a URL. The urn:nbn: part is case-insensitive.

Parent datatype: Uniform Resource Name (URN) urn
Categories: Publishing and print, Objects identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P4109
Quality: 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[Uu][Rr][Nn]:[Nn][Bb][Nn]:[A-Za-z]{2}[:-]\S+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
urn:nbn:de:0074-3121-9	Proceedings of AAAI-MAKE 2022
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100238157	Example of the Wikidata property
ark:/13960/t3vt7027k invalid	An ARK, not a URN:NBN

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Национальный библиографический номер (URN:NBN)	Постоянный идентификатор электронной публикации в пространстве имён urn:nbn: (RFC 8458), который присваивают национальные библиотеки.

Sources

doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8458
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4109
doc: https://nbn-resolving.org/

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