Statistics of the CERL Thesaurus
From 14-10-2025
Records
| Number | Designation |
|---|---|
| 1552917 | total records |
| 36669 | IMPRINT PLACE NAMES |
| 35965 | non-fictional names |
| 260 | fictional names |
| 129 | identification uncertain |
| 315 | names used for more than one place |
| 105912 | IMPRINT NAMES |
| 105324 | non-fictional names |
| 513 | fictional names |
| 48 | identification uncertain |
| 27 | names used for more than one imprint name |
| 1372770 | PERSONAL NAMES |
| 1242761 | non-fictional names |
| 9897 | fictional names |
| 107598 | identification uncertain |
| 12514 | names used for more than one person |
| 37566 | CORPORATE BODY NAMES |
| 37162 | non-fictional names |
| 402 | fictional names |
| 1 | identification uncertain |
| 1 | names used for more than one corporate body |
Provenance information
| Record type | Total records | Records with linked provenance information |
|---|---|---|
| Personal names | 1372770 | 26795 |
| Corporate body names | 37566 | 4203 |
Variant name forms
| Number | Designation |
|---|---|
| 3090983 | total variant name forms |
| 67075 | total variant name forms IMPRINT PLACES |
| 66124 | - thereof non-fictional name forms |
| 951 | - thereof fictional name forms |
| 178770 | total variant name forms IMPRINT NAMES |
| 176880 | - thereof non-fictional name forms |
| 1890 | - thereof fictional name forms |
| 2780492 | total variant name forms PERSONAL NAMES |
| 2729836 | - thereof non-fictional name forms |
| 50656 | - thereof fictional name forms |
| 64646 | total variant name forms CORPORATE BODY NAMES |
| 64644 | - thereof non-fictional name forms |
| 2 | - thereof fictional name forms |
Standard forms
| Number | Designation |
|---|---|
| 1694096 | total standard forms |
| 22214 | total standard forms IMPRINT PLACE NAMES |
| 21804 | imprint place names (default) |
| 203 | fictional imprint place names |
| 121 | identification of entities uncertain |
| 86 | imprint place names used for more than one entity |
| 105486 | total standard forms IMPRINT NAMES |
| 104895 | imprint names (default) |
| 516 | fictional imprint names |
| 48 | identification of entities uncertain |
| 27 | imprint names used for more than one entity |
| 1528835 | total standard forms PERSONAL NAMES |
| 1394649 | personal names (default) |
| 11579 | fictional personal names |
| 110065 | identification of entities uncertain |
| 12542 | personal names used for more than one entity |
| 37561 | total standard forms CORPORATE BODY NAMES |
| 37494 | corporate body names (default) |
| 66 | fictional corporate body names |
| 1 | identification of entities uncertain |
| 0 | corporate body names used for more than one entity |
Other information
| Number | Designation |
|---|---|
| 1948289 | source references ('Found in') |
| 941731 | imprint sources |
| 1198024 | general notes |
| 1436703 | biographical dates / dates of activity |
| 1850912 | activity notes |
| 1677590 | geographical notes |
| 515210 | related personal names |
| 39382 | related imprint names |
| 141795 | related corporate names |
| 1135737 | place of activity notes |
| 49770 | printer's devices etc. notes |
| 57535 | online resources (Hyperlinks) |
| 2881337 | remote access to external systems |
| 67851 | - thereof to STCN |
| 37740 | - thereof to provenance information |
De-duplicating
| Number | Designation |
|---|---|
| 507793 | merged records in total |
| 169525 | records resulting from merger |
| 142839 | - thereof records edited manually |
| 288380 | cases, in which merging of records has been refused |
| 728017 | remaining references to probably duplicate records |
| 1784 | - thereof in records with standard forms marked as 'identification uncertain' |
Origin of authority data
| Country of origin | File owner | Code | total | cnl | cni | cnp | cnc | caf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | The Bernstein Consortium | AtBPA | 2127 | 2127 | ||||
| Belgium | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | ODIS | 65 | 65 | ||||
| Belgium | Bibliotheek van de Universiteit Antwerpen | STCV | 1502 | 1502 | ||||
| Canada | The Women's Print History Project, Canada | WPHP | 14965 | 4193 | 5560 | 5212 | ||
| Croatia | Nacionalna i Sveucilišna Knjižnica | NSK | 943 | 178 | 765 | |||
| Czech Republic | The National Museum Library, Prague (Czech Republic) | aba010 | 355 | 13 | 342 | |||
| Denmark | Det Kongelige Bibliotek København | DkKoKB | 1505 | 1505 | ||||
| France | Bibliothèque nationale de France | BNF | 218316 | 16175 | 189530 | 12611 | ||
| France | Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon | FrLy | 1148 | 946 | 202 | |||
| France | Fondation Custodia | MarCus | 4179 | 3566 | 613 | |||
| Germany | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München | BSB,VD16 | 14540 | 1930 | 12610 | |||
| Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | DE-588a | 4045 | 4045 | ||||
| Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | DE-588b | 1080 | 1080 | ||||
| Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | DE-588c | 509 | 455 | 54 | |||
| Germany | Bibliotheksverbund Bayern | DE-604 | 61 | 61 | ||||
| Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | DE-611 | 4208 | 3746 | 462 | |||
| Germany | HANS, SUB Göttingen (Germany) | DE-7-HANS | 8012 | 6032 | 1980 | |||
| Germany | Deutsches Musikarchiv, Berlin | DMA | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | GND | 866302 | 16415 | 27244 | 822643 | ||
| Germany | Germania Sacra Online | GScrO | 39230 | 38186 | 1044 | |||
| Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | GYBL | 227 | 174 | 53 | |||
| Germany | Franckesche Stiftungen Halle Bibliothek | GYHF | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Germany | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover | GYHN | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Germany | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München | GYMG | 6866 | 2760 | 3682 | 424 | ||
| Germany | Universitätsbibliothek Rostock | GYRU | 29 | 28 | 1 | |||
| Germany | Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar | GYWH | 598 | 472 | 126 | |||
| Germany | Freie Universität Berlin | GyBFU | 178 | 178 | ||||
| Germany | Gemeinsamer Biblitoheksverbund | GyGoGBV | 195400 | 13894 | 178741 | 2765 | ||
| Germany | Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen | GyGoN | 313 | 216 | 97 | |||
| Germany | Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg | GyHaS | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Germany | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel | GyWbHAB | 2083 | 1825 | 258 | |||
| Germany | Mainzer early-modern academics’ libraries | MABFN | 58 | 58 | ||||
| Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | PND | 113515 | 99 | 113416 | |||
| Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | SBB-TW | 4140 | 4140 | ||||
| Germany | Institut Deutsche Presseforschung, Universität Bremen | UBrm | 749 | 749 | ||||
| Germany | Memoriae renovatae decades (CAMENA),(Germany) | witte_memoriae | 214 | 214 | ||||
| Hungary | National Széchényi Library, Budapest | HUBpOSK | 543 | 543 | ||||
| Irland | Consortium of European Research Libraries | CERL | 1973 | 1883 | 90 | |||
| Italy | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ICCU | 14776 | 2512 | 11153 | 1111 | ||
| Italy | Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli | IT-NA0079 | 209 | 156 | 53 | |||
| Italy | Biblioteca nazionale centrale Vittorio Emanuele II Roma | IT-RM0267 | 198 | 60 | 138 | |||
| Italy | Biblioteca Casanatense, Roma | IT-RM0313 | 379 | 317 | 62 | |||
| Italy | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Venezia | IT-VE0049 | 1398 | 1228 | 170 | |||
| Italy | RICI database | RICI | 7131 | 6227 | 904 | |||
| The Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | NL-HaKB | 54825 | 301 | 12131 | 42258 | 135 | |
| The Netherlands | Universiteit Utrecht | NL-UtRU | 762 | 762 | ||||
| The Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | NeNKHB | 11777 | 11777 | ||||
| Poland | Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie | BUW | 3694 | 3298 | 396 | |||
| Poland | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa | PlWaBN | 16409 | 621 | 15720 | 68 | ||
| Poland | NUKAT union catalogue of Polish academic and research libraries | nukat | 15700 | 3055 | 12245 | 400 | ||
| Poland | Biblioteka Ossolineum | plolw | 6825 | 1536 | 5134 | 155 | ||
| Poland | Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie | plwau | 5020 | 1 | 539 | 4219 | 261 | |
| Poland | Wroclaw University Library (Poland) | plwro | 7010 | 1880 | 4997 | 133 | ||
| Russia | National Library of Russia | RuNLR | 6648 | 1963 | 4530 | 155 | ||
| Slovakia | Slovak National Library | MaSNL | 149 | 55 | 94 | |||
| Spain | Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona | ES-BaCBU | 4466 | 4397 | 69 | |||
| Spain | Universitat de Barcelona | ES-BaUB | 6274 | 4611 | 1489 | 174 | ||
| Spain | Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca | ES-SlU | 2233 | 2131 | 102 | |||
| Spain | Biblioteca Nacional de España | SpMaBN | 648 | 648 | ||||
| Spain | Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid | SpMaUC | 1207 | 1029 | 178 | |||
| Switzerland | Universitätsbibliothek Basel | SzBaU | 1306 | 1145 | 161 | |||
| United Kingdom | Book Owners Online | BOO | 2902 | 2902 | ||||
| United Kingdom | British Library | ESTC | 53337 | 49630 | 3707 | |||
| United Kingdom | University of Glasgow Library | GlU-inc | 1348 | 425 | 755 | 168 | ||
| United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland | NLS-SBTI | 8197 | 8197 | ||||
| United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland | NLS-SSP | 197 | 197 | ||||
| United Kingdom | Owners of Incunabula, CERL database | OWNINC | 16998 | 13900 | 3098 | |||
| United Kingdom | Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire | PRFL | 66 | 66 | ||||
| United Kingdom | University of Aberdeen Library | StAbUL | 1343 | 1281 | 62 | |||
| United Kingdom | British Library | Uk | 1207 | 1207 | 161 | 8 | ||
| United Kingdom | Canterbury Cathedral Libraries | UkCyCl | 1201 | 1072 | 129 | |||
| United Kingdom | Middle Temple Library, London | UkMiTe | 169 | 161 | 8 | |||
| United States | Library of Congress (United States) | DLC | 83 | 83 | ||||
| United States | The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names | TGN | 1 | 1 |
Not in this list are the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue (UK) and the Royal Library of Stockholm (S).
Editing
Please note: These statistics on editing activities over the years are not constant because upon merger of two records, editing signatures from one of the records are lost. DCG aims to provide a more meaningful retrospective constant overview in due course.
Created records
| Year | total | cnl | cni | cnp | cnc | caf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 2002 | 472 | 469 | 3 | |||
| 2003 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2004 | 30 | 24 | 6 | |||
| 2005 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 2007 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2008 | 2756 | 1 | 2750 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 17 | 16 | 1 | |||
| 2010 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2011 | 218 | 14 | 2 | 201 | 1 | |
| 2012 | 287 | 5 | 2 | 232 | 48 | |
| 2013 | 318 | 3 | 2 | 168 | 145 | |
| 2014 | 636 | 12 | 2 | 314 | 308 | |
| 2015 | 559 | 17 | 48 | 366 | 128 | |
| 2016 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2017 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 2018 | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||
| 2019 | 256 | 86 | 124 | 46 | ||
| 2020 | 144 | 104 | 1 | 32 | 7 | |
| 2021 | 226 | 17 | 1 | 191 | 17 | |
| 2022 | 149 | 27 | 92 | 30 | ||
| 2023 | 159 | 2 | 1 | 150 | 6 | |
| 2024 | 59 | 5 | 50 | 4 | ||
| 2025 | 43 | 1 | 33 | 9 | ||
| total | 6445 | 849 | 2842 | 1985 | 769 |
Edited records
| Year | total | cnl | cni | cnp | cnc | caf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8431 | 776 | 36 | 7529 | 90 | |
| 2011 | 9415 | 1151 | 81 | 8178 | 5 | |
| 2012 | 2816 | 188 | 29 | 2576 | 23 | |
| 2013 | 8654 | 53 | 61 | 8139 | 401 | |
| 2014 | 3557 | 222 | 40 | 2546 | 749 | |
| 2015 | 5544 | 225 | 46 | 4339 | 934 | |
| 2016 | 4474 | 176 | 53 | 3469 | 776 | |
| 2017 | 2599 | 75 | 43 | 2258 | 223 | |
| 2018 | 3298 | 1191 | 18 | 1936 | 153 | |
| 2019 | 5265 | 2306 | 189 | 2383 | 387 | |
| 2020 | 13697 | 847 | 744 | 11759 | 347 | |
| 2021 | 16025 | 45 | 292 | 15682 | 6 | |
| 2022 | 2017 | 258 | 3 | 1739 | 17 | |
| 2023 | 900 | 9 | 94 | 745 | 52 | |
| 2024 | 768 | 7 | 11 | 745 | 5 | |
| 2025 | 441 | 1 | 2 | 433 | 5 | |
| total | 151380 | 8958 | 2209 | 136010 | 4203 |
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