The German National Bibliography 1601-1700: Digital images in a cooperative cataloging project

This article describes the concept and realization of the German National Bibliography 1601-1700. The GNB is an extensive cataloging project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). At present, six libraries with important holdings covering this period take part in the project. The technical prerequisites have been developed by the Bavarian Research Center For Knowledge-Based Systems (FORWISS), which over the last few years has gained competence in digital library systems. The GNB is conceived as a database for shared cataloging. It is a large-scale bibliographic project with digitized images of key pages forming an integral part of the bibliographic description.