The Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank (People database of Rhineland-Palatinate, RPPD) is an internet

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ...

with short biographies of people who have lived or worked in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It is being edited at four scientific libraries in Rhineland-Palatinate: Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz, Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer, Stadtbibliothek Mainz, Stadtbibliothek Trier. The RPPD is hosted by Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz, a facility of the Landesbibliothekszentrums Rheinland-Pfalz.

Content

Research for the Rheinland-Pfälzische Bibliographie often results also in biographical data. In 2005 this developed into the idea for a separate database.

Criteria

The criterion for an entry is that a person was born on the territory of today's

(also before the establishment of the Bundesland in 1946) or has died there or has done some significant work there. Currently (April 2013) around 10,000 people from Roman times onwards are recorded. With authorization by the rights owners data from printed biographical reference works were added. As far as dead people are concerned, the name registers have been integrated into the biography portal in March 2012.News report by Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz
/ref> A dataset includes the following information (if ascertainable): name forms, sex, life dates, places of life and work, occupations, fields of expertise, relations to other persons (inside and outside of the RPPD), own works, sources, biographical text. All this information can also be researched.

External links

Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank Online person databases Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate 2005 establishments in Germany Internet properties established in 2005