Prefix
loc
Name
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
Homepage
https://id.loc.gov/
Source Code Repository
No response
Description
The Library of Congress Linked Data Service (id.loc.gov) provides interactive and machine access to the Library's authority and bibliographic metadata, along with commonly-found standards and vocabularies used and/or maintained by the Library of Congress. Each controlled vocabulary list has a resolvable URI, as does each data value within it. Ontologies for several major data element sets are also available.
This includes the LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings), the TGM (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials), preservation vocabularies, language and country codes, or the American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus) among others.
License
CC0
Publications
No response
Example Local Unique Identifier
demographicTerms
Regular Expression Pattern for Local Unique Identifier
No response
URI Format String
No response
Wikidata Property
P244
Contributor Name
Noemi Betancort Cabrera
Contributor GitHub
nbetancort
Contributor ORCiD
0000-0002-0156-3556
Contributor Email
No response
Contact Name
No response
Contact ORCiD
No response
Contact GitHub
No response
Contact Email
No response
Additional Comments
It is a generic vocabulary and authority service mostly used by libraries and cultural heritage organizations. It includes following prefixes:
- lcsh
- lcsh.genreforms
- loc.fdd
- loc.relator
- loc.resourcetype
Prefix
loc
Name
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
Homepage
https://id.loc.gov/
Source Code Repository
No response
Description
The Library of Congress Linked Data Service (id.loc.gov) provides interactive and machine access to the Library's authority and bibliographic metadata, along with commonly-found standards and vocabularies used and/or maintained by the Library of Congress. Each controlled vocabulary list has a resolvable URI, as does each data value within it. Ontologies for several major data element sets are also available.
This includes the LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings), the TGM (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials), preservation vocabularies, language and country codes, or the American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus) among others.
License
CC0
Publications
No response
Example Local Unique Identifier
demographicTerms
Regular Expression Pattern for Local Unique Identifier
No response
URI Format String
No response
Wikidata Property
P244
Contributor Name
Noemi Betancort Cabrera
Contributor GitHub
nbetancort
Contributor ORCiD
0000-0002-0156-3556
Contributor Email
No response
Contact Name
No response
Contact ORCiD
No response
Contact GitHub
No response
Contact Email
No response
Additional Comments
It is a generic vocabulary and authority service mostly used by libraries and cultural heritage organizations. It includes following prefixes: