The Personennamendatei (PND) is an authority file of people, which serves primarily to access literature in libraries. The PND has been built up between 1995 and 1998 and is published by the German National Library

German National Library

The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany...

. For each person there is a record with his name, birth and occupation connected with a unique identifier, the PND number.

The PND comprises more than 2 million entries and is comparable with the “Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

 Name Authority File” (LCNAF).

See also

• Library of Congress Control Number
  Library of Congress Control Number
  The Library of Congress Control Number or LCCN is a serially based system of numbering cataloging records in the Library of Congress in the United States...
  
   (LCCN)
• Virtual International Authority File
  Virtual International Authority File
  The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of several national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center...
  
   (VIAF)
• Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei
  Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei
  The Common Corporation File or GKD is a German authority control for the organisation of corporation names from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries...
  
   (GKD)
• SELIBR
  SELIBR
  The SELIBR is an authority file of people, which serves primarily to access literature in libraries. The SELIBR is published by the National Library of Sweden...
  
  

Further reading

• Reinhard Rinn: Das Projekt Personennamendatei (PND-Projekt); in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 41 (1994), p. 543
• Reinhard Rinn: Die überregionale Normdatei für Personennamen (PND). Bericht zum Projektstand September 1995; in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 42 (1995), p. 617
• Claudia Fabian: Entwicklung und Aufbau der Personennamendatei in Deutschland. Bericht über Konzeption und Realisierung seit 1989; in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 42 (1995), p. 605
• Ronald Michael Schmidt: Die Anwendung der überregionalen Personennamendatei in Verbundsystemen; in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 44 (1997), p. 117
• Brigitte Wiechmann: Individualisierungstest in Der Deutschen Bibliothek; in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 46 (1999), Heft 3
• Katrin Teichmann: Anwendung der Normdaten Der Deutschen Bibliothek in der Museumsdokumentation. Am Beispiel der Porträtsammlung im Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig; Hochschulschrift 2003
• Gabriele Meßmer: The German Name Authority File (PND) in the Union Catalogue: principles experiences and costs; in: Authority control. Definizione ed esperienze internazionali. Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 10-12 febbraio 2003 [Authority Control: Reflections and Experiences. Florence Italy. 10–12 February 2003.]; ISBN 88-8453-110-1 Online-Version
• Christel Hengel: Normdaten und Metadaten. Die Idee eines Internationalen Authority File, in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 50 (2003), pp. 210–214.