Template:German National Library portal

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"Template:DNB Portal" redirects here. For the template linking to the Dictionary of National Biography, see Template:DNB.

This template displays an external link to the German National Library (DNB) portal via database entry IDs (German: Identifikationsnummer eines Titeldatensatzes aka IDN). Such external links include the Integrated Authority File (GND) about people (Personennamendatei), corporations (Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei) or keywords (Schlagwortnormdatei).

The template also accepts the German Wikipedia title of the template {{DNB-Portal}}.

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* {{DNB portal|}}
* {{DNB portal||TYP=|NAME=}}

Parameters

The first parameter should be the IDN:

Standard parameter:

IDN identifier - e.g., Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei, abbreviated GND)

Example:

• {{DNB portal|7749153-1}}

gives Literature by and about German National Library portal in the German National Library catalogue

Additional optional parameters are:

TYP - The default words are "Literature by and about". To change this the parameter "TYP" is used.

Examples:

• {{DNB portal|135358795|TYP=Sound carrier of}} (if there is only a sound carrier of the person)

gives Sound carrier of German National Library portal in the German National Library catalogue

• {{DNB portal|135358795|TYP=Literature about}} (if there is only literature about but not by a person, or if the subject is not a person)

gives Literature about German National Library portal in the German National Library catalogue

NAME - the default setting is the page name.

Example:

• {{DNB portal|121503925|NAME=Peter Abrahams}}

gives Literature by and about Peter Abrahams in the German National Library catalogue (because the lemma is Peter Abrahams (American author))

TYP and NAME combined

Example:

• {{DNB portal|10336851-6|TYP=Sound carrier of|NAME=the Beginner}}

gives Sound carrier of the Beginner in the German National Library catalogue

See also

• Template:Authority control
• Template:GND (returns just the link without verbose message)
• Template:DNB-IDN (wider scope of IDs)
• Template:LCAuth (similar, but at Library of Congress)

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