National Library Datasets

Discover and download our rich datasets about the National Library’s digital collection.

Keen to glean insights about Singapore’s history, culture, and the arts - through data? Now you can! The National Library’s digital collection comprises of various formats such as digitised books, magazines, maps, newspapers, images, sound and video recordings and websites. We have made the metadata of this collection available in the form of open datasets for non-commercial visualisation and analysis. 

Datasets are structured collections of data generally associated with a unique body of work.
(Source: Introduction - Datasets at the Library of Congress: A Research Guide by the Library of Congress)  

Click on the links below to download the datasets and start your exploration journey.

  1. National Library Singapore Digitised Books and Magazines
  2. National Library Singapore Online Articles
  3. National Library Singapore Digitised Documents and Manuscripts
  4. National Library Singapore Digitised Ephemera
  5. National Library Singapore Digitised Maps
  6. National Library Singapore Digitised Newspapers
  7. National Library Singapore Digitised Music Albums, Lyrics and Music Scores
  8. National Library Singapore Digitised Sound and Video Recordings
  9. National Library Singapore Digitised Images
  10. National Library Singapore Archived Websites