Terminology Services
Machine-readable access to a suite of seven controlled vocabularies and thesauri
Status: Experimental
- Search descriptions, concepts/headings in a particular controlled vocabulary
- Book Industry Study Group Subject Headings (BISAC)
- Faceted Application of Subject Terminology Subject headings (FAST)
- GSAFDForm and Genre Terms
- Library of Congress AC Subject Headings
- Library of Congress Genre/Form 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
What you get
- Concepts/headings
- Preferred Terms
- Alternate Terms
- Broader and Narrow terms
- Related terms
- Notes
- Classificaion/Category Number
Who can use it
Non-commercial Use
Interested in commercial use of this service? Contact us.
Query protocols
REST, SRU
Record formats
- HTML
- MARCXML
- MADS (XML, not RDF)
- SKOS
- Zthes
- JSON
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