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Title Status What is It What it does Query Protocols Record Formats
Classify Experimental Classify books, videos, CDs and other materials based on identifier: ISBN or OCLC Number

Allows you to retrieve a classification (Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress) based on an identifier (ISBN, OCLC Number)

 REST Classify specific XML
Dewey Web Services Experimental Portion of Dewey Decimal classification represented as Linked Data
  • Allows you to link to the top 3 levels of Dewey as Linked Data resources
 REST, SPARQL
  • XHTML+RDFa
  • SKOS in three serializations

    • RDF/XML
    • Turtle
    • JSON
FAST Linked Data API Experimental A Faceted Authority file based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
  • Search for authority data by keywords in any or specific facets, Library of Congress source keywords, or control number of source records and retrieve FAST authority records
  • Link directly to authority records
     

Data from this web services is licensed under ODC-By.

 REST, SRU

RDF, MARC21
LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) Experimental Developer access to a database of LC Authority records extracted from WorldCat.
  • Provides SRU browse and search capabilities for Library of Congress Name Authorities
    • Several indexes available
  • Outputs authority records in a variety of formats
    • MARCXML
 SRU

XML
MapFAST Experimental Developer-level access to FAST Subject headings based on geographic coordinates. The Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) schema reworks LCSH's authority rules so that they are easier to use, understand, and apply. The result is a schema designed to handle a large volume of materials with less effort and cost.

Provides search access to FAST Geographic and Event subject headings based on proximity of those headings to a given set of coordinates.

For example, the MapFAST web service could be used to retrieve a list FAST subject headings near the coordinates: latitude longitude.

 REST

JSON
Metadata Crosswalk Service Experimental Web Service to transform metadata from one format to another
  • Send records in a given metadata format along with desired output format to service
  • Get back records in requested metadata format
 SOAP

Records can be transformed into

  • Dublin Core
  • MARCXML
  • MARC-2709
  • MODS
     
Terminology Services Experimental Machine-readable access to a suite of seven controlled vocabularies and thesauri
  • Search descriptions, concepts/headings in a particular controlled vocabulary
    • FAST
    • GSA Form and Genre Terms
    • Library of Congress AC Subject Headings
    • Library of Congress Subject Headings
    • Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
    • Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I
    • Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II
  • View authority representation in a variety of formats
 REST, SRU
  • HTML
  • MARCXML
  • MADS?
  • SKOS
  • Zthes
  • JSON?
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Experimental Authority data from 22 agencies in 19 countries, representing a variety of formats.
  • Search for authority data by keyword, local name, preferred name form, title, source, or control number of source records and retrieve authority records and relationships between authority records from different sources
  • Link directly to authority records based on data from contributors worldwide
 SRU, Open Search

RSS, RDF, MARC21, UNIMARC, VIAF XML format, HTML

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