Historical dblp file is now available

A historical version of the dblp.xml (called hdblp.xml) is now available at zenodo. hdblp contains historical revisions of all metadata records in dblp. The file can be used to reconstruct the state of dblp for each day between June 1999 and March 2018. The dblp computer science bibliography was founded in 1993. Since then, dblp has gathered (as of March 2018) data on more than 4 million publications written by about 2 million different authors. For each publication and each author, the collection maintains a simple metadata record which contains all descriptive information. The set of all records is available as daily snapshot as well as stable monthly releases. The records are modified frequently to add additional information or to Read more

Monthly snapshot releases

The dblp data set (found at dblp.dagstuhl.de/xml/) is studied or used as a benchmark in many scientific publications. However, due to the daily updates to dblp, it can be sometimes difficult to reproduce experimental results made on earlier versions. To remedy this problem, starting from today, dblp will provide and archive stable monthly snapshot releases of the dblp data set. We encourage you to use these snapshot releases for your experiments and to cite their persistent URLs in published articles to. You can find the archived dblp data snapshots at dblp.dagstuhl.de/xml/release/.