Hispanic Digital Library

The Hispanic Digital Library (Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, BDH, in Spanish) offers free access to thousands of digitised documents held at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, including books printed from the 15th to 19th centuries, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic press and audio recordings. Created in 2008, today it already offers over 221,000 titles (February 2019) of all subjects and document types, available to anyone and from anywhere.

Different BDH datasets have been released for different criteria:

  • Complete distribution of the entire BDH.
  • Specific datasets by type of document: books, manuscripts, drawings, etc.
  • Datasets corresponding to highlighted collections: Art, Cartography, Cervantes, Golden Age Theatre, etc.

Our catalogue records, coded at source in MARC format, were mapped and transformed to create these datasets. A series of MARC fields and subfields to recover and display were established for each type of record, and a text was defined to describe the data displayed.

The result is transformed into CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT and XML.

Further information: Hispanic Digital Library

DATA AND FORMATS AVAILABLE:

 

Complete BDH
Complete BDH HTML, CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Documents in public domain CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
By type of document
BDH – Drawings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Engravings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Photographs CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Books CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Manuscripts CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Cartographic material CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Music  CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Non-musical sound records CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
By subject
BDH – Fine art CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Science and culture CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Applied sciences CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Pure sciences CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Social sciences CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Philosophy and Psychology CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Geography, Biographies and History CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Linguistics and literature CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Religion and theology CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
By highlighted collections
BDH – Blues CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Boleros CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Concerts CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Cuplés CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Flamenco CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Fox-trot CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Frédéric Chopin CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Gershwin Brothers CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Jazz CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Masters of the copla CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Masters of 19h century zarzuela CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Choir music CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Film music CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – 17th and 18th century religious music CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Italian musicians in Spain CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Operas CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Non-musical sound records CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Symphonies CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Tangos: Carlos Gardel CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Wagner  CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – General art CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Atlases and cartographic material CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Choir books CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Nautical charts CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Advertising posters CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Cervantes CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Wax cylinders CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Architectural drawings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Children’s war drawings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Perforated discs CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Ephemera CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – epubs CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Japanese prints CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Photography CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Circus photographs CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Gastronomy CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Goya CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Contemporary engravings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Flemish and Dutch engravings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – German engravings CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Engravings by Durer CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Engravings by Rembrandt CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Spanish War of Independence CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Hispanic America CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Hispanic Iconography CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Spanish incunabula CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – American independence CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Laurent CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Cavalry books CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Books of hours CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Pop-up books CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Mendoza Collection Maps CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – New authors in the public domain CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Masterpieces CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Pianola rolls CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Golden Age Theatre CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Lyric theatre CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML
BDH – Travel CSV, JSON, ODS, TXT y XML