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

lcnafid loc.subjects lcnaf loc.subject

Keywords

subject agnostic

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Part of loc

References

GitHub Issue https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/2101

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

sh2002006576   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:sh2002006576

Contact

Missing Contact

Contributors

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

contributor Noemi Betancort Cabrera   0000-0002-0156-3556   nbetancort

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries 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 sh2002006576 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.