SCK

Database of Czech Librarians

Number of all items (including items describing librarians):
5,613

Introduction

Database of Czech Librarians (also known as SCK) is one of the databases produced by the National Library of the Czech Republic, specifically by the Librarianship Institute.

Since the end of November 2023 this database is available as open data (under CC0).

In 2024 data were migrated from Aleph library system to this Wikibase instance.

Original data from Aleph (from June 2024) are available in MARCXML on the Information for Libraries web portal.

More details are available on the Information for Libraries web portal (in Czech only).

Sample Queries

All librarians

Map of librarians' birth places

Map of librarians' work locations

Map of librarians' death places

Timeline of librarians with images (mostly photographs) on Wikimedia Commons

Timeline of librarians born in 1930

List of librarians born from 1945 to 1989

Sample Items

Kinský, František Josef, Count, 1739-1805

Item Q26

Živný, Ladislav Jan, 1872-1949

Item Q382

Kádnerová, Jiřina, 1943-

Item Q207

The photographs are from Wikimedia Commons.

Documentation

Under construction.

Data Reuse

Data in this Wikibase including related documentation and queries is available under CC0. Although CC0 does not require attribution, we would very much appreciate it if you mention the National Library of the Czech Republic as a source of data in your project.

Feedback

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Webarchiv

This Wikibase is harvested by Webarchiv which is operated by the National Library of the Czech Republic:

• entry page;
• Q772 as a sample item (you can create similar links to view archived versions of other individual items from this Wikibase).