Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) has been actively maintained since 1898 to catalog materials held at the Library of Congress. (from homepage)

Prefix

lcsh

Alternative Prefixes

lcnaf lcnafid

Keywords

subject agnostic

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Library of Congress Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^\w{1,2}\d{8,10}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

nb2018006591   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Library of Congress Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^lcsh:\w{1,2}\d{8,10}$

Example CURIE

lcsh:nb2018006591

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/$1

Example RDF URI

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2018006591

Contact

Missing Contact

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )

lcsh.genreforms

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier nb2018006591 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Library of Congress Subject Headings. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Semantic Farm are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.