Hi Kevin Great news, thanks for this post. Congratulations! Forwarding to the W3C Government Linked Data working group who has vocabularies for Gov't use as a deliverable. Also forwarding to Pierre Desrochers of Library and Archives Canada in the event you two haven't previously met. Pierre is a chapter author on the soon to be published book "Linking Government Data (David Wood, editor, Springer 2011).
Cheers, Bernadette Hyland Co-chair W3C Government Linked Data Working Group Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2011, at 16:11, "Ford, Kevin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Announcement: New Vocabulary Data Added to LC Authorities and Vocabularies > Service > > The Library of Congress is pleased to make available additional vocabularies > from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which > provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked > Data. The new dataset is: > > * Library of Congress Name Authority File (LC/NAF) > > In addition, the service has been enhanced to provide separate access to the > following datasets which have been a part of the LCSH dataset access: > > * Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms > * Library of Congress Children's Headings > > The LC/NAF data are published in RDF using the MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF > vocabularies, as are the other datasets. Individual concepts are accessible > at the ID.LOC.GOV web service via a web browser interface or programmatically > via content-negotiation. The vocabulary data are available for bulk download > in MADS and SKOS RDF (the Name file and main LCSH file will be available by > Friday, August 12). > > **Please explore it for yourself at http://id.loc.gov. ** > > Contact Us about ID: > As always, your feedback is important and welcomed. Though we are interested > in all forms of constructive commentary on all topics related to ID, we're > particularly interested in how the data available from ID.LOC.GOV is used. > Your contributions directly inform service enhancements. > > The addition of Names has resulted in considerable changes to the ID.LOC.GOV > backend. Although we have endeavored to bring the service up with all pieces > in place, please be patient as we work out any remaining "kinks". > > You can send comments or report any problems to us via the ID feedback form > or ID listserv (see the web site). > > Background: > The Authorities and Vocabularies web service was first made available in May > 2009 and offered the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the > Library's initial entry into the Linked Data environment. In part by > assigning each vocabulary and each data value within it a unique resource > identifier (URI), the service provides a means for machines to semantically > access, use, and harvest authority and vocabulary data that adheres to W3C > recommendations, such as Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and the > more detailed vocabulary MADS/RDF. In this way, the Authorities and > Vocabularies web service also makes government data publicly and freely > available in the spirit of the Open Government directive. Although the > primary goal of the service is to enable machine access to Library of > Congress data, a web interface serves human users searching and browsing the > vocabularies. The new datasets join the term and code lists already > available through the service: > > * Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) > * Thesaurus of Graphic Materials > * MARC Code List for Relators > * MARC Code List for Countries (which reference their equivalent ISO 3166 > codes) > * MARC Code List for Geographic Areas > * MARC Code List for Languages (which have been cross referenced with ISO > 639-1, 639-2, and 639-5, where appropriate) > * PREMIS vocabularies for Cryptographic Hash Functions, Preservation Events, > and Preservation Level Roles > > The above code lists also contain links with appropriate LCSH and LC/NAF > headings. Additional vocabularies will be added in the future, including > additional PREMIS controlled vocabularies. > > > -- > Kevin Ford > Digital Project Coordinator > Network Development & MARC Standards Office > Library of Congress > 101 Independence Avenue, SE > Washington, DC 20540-4402 > > Email: [email protected] > Tel: 202 707 3526 > > > >
