Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies Service
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Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies Service


At last LoC has created a replacement for Ed Summers's lcsh.info as their Authorities and Vocabularies service.
The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress. This service is influenced by -- and implements -- the Linked Data movement's approach of exposing and inter-connecting data on the Web via dereferenceable URIs.
Currently only the LCSH are available. They plan to make the Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, MARC Geographic Area Codes, MARC Language Codes, and MARC Relator Codes available.




- Oclc Releases Fast As Linked Data
OCLC has released FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as Linked Data. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), is now...

- New Vocabulary Data Added To Lc Authorities And Vocabularies Service
Image via WikipediaLC has announced that new vocabulary data has been added to the LC Authorities and Vocabularies Service. The Library of Congress is pleased to make available additional vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service...

- Linking To Lcsh And Lcc
Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web Barbara Tillett, Libby Dechman, and Loche McLean will be presented on August 16, 2011, at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference...

- New Vocabularies Added To Lc Authorities And Vocabularies Service
Good news from LC more linked data.The Library of Congress is pleased to make available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked...

- Changing Lc Subject Headings
A post on AUTOCAT alerted me to this, suggestions for changes to LC subject headings can be made from the Authorities & Vocabularies service. There is a suggest terminology tab at the top of the page. I missed that for how long? The LC Authorities...



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