UN Digital Library hits 1,000,000
The Dag Hammarskj?ld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata units in the , its online catalogue.
Every year, the UN generates thousands of documents and publications of various types, among them resolutions, Secretary-General’s reports, meeting records, annual reports, agendas, lists of participants, statistical data sets, and policy papers.
The Dag Hammarskj?ld Library in New York ensures that this vast amount of information and knowledge is collected, organized and secured for posterity.
“Inspiring positive actions”
The documents and publications are easily findable and usable for delegates, UN staff and researchers through the online provision of searchable bibliographic metadata – systematically formatted summaries of each document consisting of access points that are readable and searchable by both computers and humans.
“The number of bibliographic metadata in the UN Digital Library has hit 1,000,000. These are a million metadata that inspire positive actions around the world. Congratulations! And thank you for this monumental achievement,” said Abraham Azubuike, head of the Library’s Information Analysis and Metadata Unit.
All this effort makes it easier to find documents by author, speaker, agenda item, title, document symbol, sponsor of a resolution, topical subject, and voting result.
The work of generations of UN librarians
UN librarians like to say that the Dag Hammarskj?ld Library was born with the United Nations in 1945, because library resources and services were organized and provided to the delegates to the San Francisco Conference which resulted in the creation of the United Nations.
The Library’s bibliographic metadata set started its journey from this great conference, and evolved from printed indexes, checklists and card catalogues to today’s web-based online databases and services. ?
Generations of UN librarians have contributed to the process of creating this immense metadata set by applying a painstakingly detailed analysis to each document to capture its content and key features.?
The resulting metadata sets allow delegates, staff, historians, foreign policy experts, and citizens worldwide to conduct their research for UN documentation in a comprehensive and efficient manner.
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