Library of Congress Linked Data Service

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Library of Congress Linked Data Service
Owner Library of Congress
URL id.loc.gov
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Written in Python

The LC Linked Data Service is an initiative of the Library of Congress that publishes authority data as linked data. [1] It is commonly referred to by its URI: id.loc.gov. [2]

Contents

The first offering of the LC Linked Data Service was the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) dataset, which was released in April 2009. [3]

Datasets

Formats

The service presents data in MADS/RDF and SKOS where appropriate, but also uses its own ontology to describe classification resources and relationships more accurately. [2] All records are available individually via content negotiation as XHTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, N-Triples, and JSON. [4]

Each vocabulary is also available to download in its entirety. Id.loc.gov does not currently provide a SPARQL endpoint. [5] [6]

Uses

All of LCSH are crosslinked with RAMEAU  [ d ] (Répertoire d’autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié), an authority file from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. [4]

Technical aspects

The id.loc.gov site initially used a fairly lightweight Python program to serve linked data. [5]

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References

  1. "About". LC Linked Data Service. Library of Congress . Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  2. 1 2 3 Ford, Kevin (January 2013). "Library of Congress Classification as linked data". JLIS.it. 4 (1). doi:10.4403/jlis.it-5465 . Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  3. Guenther, Rebecca (2011-01-09). LC's Authorities and Vocabularies Web Service: experimenting with Linked Data (PDF). American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference. San Diego, California, US. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  4. 1 2 Ford, Kevin (2010-11-02). ID.LOC.GOV, 1 ½ Years: Review, Changes, Future Plans, MADS/RDF (PDF). Digital Library Federation Fall Forum. Palo Alto, California, US. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  5. 1 2 Summers, Ed; Isaac, Antoine; Redding, Clay; Krech, Dan; Schreiber, Guus; Summers, Ed (2008). "LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 20 (May 2013): 35–49. arXiv: 0805.2855 . doi:10.1016/j.websem.2013.05.001. S2CID   2266021. (NB. This appears to be two sources mixed up.)
  6. "Technical Center". LC Linked Data Service. Retrieved 2014-06-01.