The Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT) is designed to describe the characteristics of the intended audiences of resources, and also the creators of, and contributors to, those resources.

Prefix

loc.demographicterms

Alternative Prefixes

lcdgt

Keywords

ontology social sciences

Links

Homepage Request Discussion Part of loc

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms should match this regular expression:
^\d{10}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

2015060004   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms should match this regular expression:
^loc\.demographicterms:\d{10}$

Example CURIE

loc.demographicterms:2015060004

Format String for RDF URIs

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

Example RDF URI

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/2015060004

Contact

Michelle Futornick

Contributor

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

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

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

In Collection (1)

KonsortSWD

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 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 2015060004 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.