Title records of the Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN)
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 223.000 editions in 650.000 copies. Contains descriptions of books in the collections of many libraries in the Netherlands and various libraries abroad. All books are described book in hand. Descriptions contain information about authors, titles, imprints, size, collation formula, subject keywords and typographical features. Every edition is distinguished by the STCN fingerprint. Newspapers and ambassadors’ letters are excluded.
Query this dataset- Publisher
- KB, national library of the Netherlands (Royal Library (The Hague))
- Landing Page
- http://data.bibliotheken.nl/doc/dataset/stcn
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Issued
- June 23, 2025
- Modified
- June 23, 2025
Distributions Distributions provide access to the data.
SPARQL
SPARQL-endpoint voor de STCN als RDF
http://data.bibliotheken.nl/sparql Obtain entities using this query 'select * where { ?s schema:mainEntityOfPage/schema:isPartOf <http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/dataset/stcn> . }'
Turtle
Datadump STCN
https://data.bibliotheken.nl/KB/Production/download.ttl.gz?graph=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.bibliotheken.nl%2Fstcn-titles Datadump STCN
Issued: 6/23/2025 File Size: 69.5 MB
This distribution has been validated by the Dataset Knowledge Graph.
Linked Data Summary Statistical information about this dataset retrieved from the Knowledge Graph, including the number of triples, entities, properties, and class distribution.
4,495,336
Triples
224,412
Subjects
20.0
Avg. triples per subject
25
Unique predicates
1,483,608
Unique objects
51%
49%
Literals: 762,255
URIs: 721,353
Classes
Class
Entities
schema:CreativeWork
224,412
33%33.3%
schema:ProductModel
224,412
33%33.3%
schema:Book
216,535
32%32.2%
schema:BookSeries
7,269
1%1.1%
schema:Periodical
608
0%0.1%
Properties
Property
Entities
data.bibliot…raphicFormat
224,412
17%16.7%
schema:mainEntityOfPage
224,412
17%16.7%
schema:name
224,412
17%16.7%
schema:publication
224,412
17%16.7%
rdfs:label
224,412
17%16.7%
schema:inLanguage
224,391
17%16.7%
Value Types
Value Type
Triples
xsd:string
7,774,476
79%78.9%
schema:AboutPage
673,236
7%6.8%
schema:PublicationEvent
673,236
7%6.8%
schema:Role
488,433
5%5.0%
schema:Gover…Organization
165,399
2%1.7%
schema:CreativeWork
83,775
1%0.8%
Vocabularies
Terminology Sources
- STCN: printers (486,701 triples)
Registration
- Registered URL URL where the dataset is described.
- Registered on Date at which the URL was registered with the Dataset Register.
- January 8, 2026 at 12:51 PM
- Last read When the URL was last read by the Dataset Register.
- 22 hours ago
- Quality Rating Indicates how complete the dataset description is based on the metadata properties provided, such as title, description, license, and publisher.
- 90%Missing properties: dcat:keyworddcterms:language