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STCN titles (RDF)
The Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) contains expert descriptions of books printed in the Netherlands and/or in Dutch between the second half of the fifteenth century and 1801 in more than 225.000 editions in over 655.000 copies. It contains descriptions of books in the collections of many heritage institutions in the Netherlands and abroad. All books are described book in hand. Descriptions contain information about authors, titles, imprints, size, collation formula, subject keywords and typographical features, among others. Every edition is distinguished by the STCN fingerprint. Newspapers and ambassadors’ letters are excluded.
- Publisher & creator
- KB, national library of the Netherlands
- Issued
- March 26, 2019
- Modified
- February 23, 2026
Linked Data Summary
280,521
Unique subjects
5,712,639
Triples
20.4
Avg. triples per subject
44
Unique predicates
2,076,971
Unique objects
49%
51%
Literals: 1,008,575
URIs: 1,068,396
Classes
Class
Entities
schema:CreativeWork
225,218
29%28.7%
schema:ProductModel
225,218
29%28.7%
schema:Book
217,327
28%27.7%
schema:Person
97,369
12%12.4%
schema:Organization
11,218
1%1.4%
schema:BookSeries
7,283
1%0.9%
Properties
Property
Entities
schema:mainEntityOfPage
280,521
18%18.5%
schema:name
280,521
18%18.5%
rdfs:label
280,521
18%18.5%
data.bibliot…raphicFormat
225,218
15%14.8%
schema:publication
225,218
15%14.8%
schema:inLanguage
225,188
15%14.8%
Value Types
Value Type
Triples
xsd:string
9,215,102
71%70.6%
schema:AboutPage
871,199
7%6.7%
schema:Thing
827,760
6%6.3%
skos:Concept
827,760
6%6.3%
schema:PublicationEvent
675,654
5%5.2%
schema:Class
638,799
5%4.9%
Vocabularies
Terminology Sources
- STCN: printers (78,643 triples)
- Wikidata: streets in the Netherlands (4,002 triples)
Registration
- Registered URL
- Registered on
- February 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
- Last read
- 11 hours ago
- Completeness
- 90%Missing properties: dcat:keyworddcterms:language