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British National Bibliography (BNB)

Dataset British National Bibliograph...
Licence Creative Commons CC0
Published 11th July 2011
Updated 25th January 2012
Resources 11611750

British National Bibliography (BNB)

Creative Commons CC0

The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdon and the Republic of Ireland and is such a measure of their intellectual output. This has traditionally included printed publications and more recently has been extended to electronic publications following the extension of legal deposit to this class of material in 2003.

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ID, label and publication year of books published before 1970
Benjamin Nowack
04th Oct 2011

Retrieves the Book URI and label, together with the associated publication year, doing query-time type-casting of the year for a numerical comparison.

Query: 
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX bibliographic: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> PREFIX bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> PREFIX event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> PREFIX year: <http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/year/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT ?book ?label ?year WHERE { ?book rdf:type bibo:Book ; bibliographic:publication ?pub . ?pub rdf:type bibliographic:PublicationEvent ; rdfs:label ?label ; event:time ?event . ?event rdfs:label ?year . FILTER(xsd:int(?year) < 1970) } LIMIT 10
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