National Library of Luxembourg Open Data

As part of its work to facilitate access to its collections to the widest possible audience, as well as to provide tools for education and research, the National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) is publishing part of its content and metadata as open datasets.

These datasets cover different collections, from full-text and metadata of digitised content, to metadata about publications and authors, to lists of URLs collected by the BnL through its web harvesting campaigns. Published datasets will be described in terms of data format, licenses and possible tools or APIs.

In this context, the BnL has digitised over 800.000 pages of Luxembourg newspapers. From those, more than 700.000 pages have rich metadata using international XML standards such as METS and ALTO.