Library of Congress Subject Headings

This is an experimental service that makes the Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data

LCSubjects.org takes the data made available from the Library of Congress' Authorities and is intended as a sandbox to provide relationships to other thesaurii and web resources. More information about the Linked Data effort can be found on the W3C Wiki

Concept Concept URI
Science http://lcsubjects.org/subjects/sh85118553#concept
Humanities http://lcsubjects.org/subjects/sh85062913#concept
Mathematics http://lcsubjects.org/subjects/sh85082139#concept
Cataloging http://lcsubjects.org/subjects/sh85020816#concept
World Wide Web http://lcsubjects.org/subjects/sh95000541#concept

The code for this project is available at github.

The data store, search results, and SPARQL endpoints are provided by the Talis Platform.

The inspiration, as well as the seed data, for this project was entirely from http://lcsh.info/ (RIP)