Registry Library of Congress Resource Types Scheme

Suggest

A controlled vocabulary of media resources, such as audio, cartographic, manuscript, multimedia, etc.

Prefix

loc.resourcetype

Keywords

data classification

Links

Homepage RDF

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

dig Resolve

Example CURIE

loc.resourcetype:dig

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt
contributor Petra C. Steiner 0000-0001-8997-2620 petrasteiner

Providers

Suggest

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 dig is used to demonstrate the providers available for Library of Congress Resource Types Scheme. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
Library of Congress Resource Types Scheme	`loc.resourcetype`	http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/resourceTypes/dig
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/loc.resourcetype:dig

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("loc.resourcetype")
'Library of Congress Resource Types Scheme'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("loc.resourcetype")
'https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/resourceTypes.html'

Get the RDF download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_rdf_download("loc.resourcetype")
'http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/resourceTypes.skos.rdf'