Our data collections are updated on a regular basis.


Digitised collections

Explore collections which have been digitised: all of our digitised collections datasets include METS/ALTO files, image files and plain text files.


Metadata collections

Analyse metadata for the Library’s collections: available as MARCXML and Dublin Core.


Map and spatial data

Discover data extracted from the Library’s map collections.


Organisational data

Find out more about the daily working of the National Library of Scotland through our organisational data, available as CSV files.