Library of Congress Authorities | Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards

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The Library of Congress Authorities allows to search, view, browse and save approximately: 265,000 subject authority records; 5.3 million name authority records (ca. 3.8 million personal, 900,000 corporate, 120,000 meeting, and 90,000 geographic names); 350,000 series and uniform title authority records; and 340,000 name/title authority records. Associated references and scope notes are also provided

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://authorities.loc.gov/

http://id.loc.gov/search/?q=cs%3Ahttp%3A//id.loc.gov/authorities/names

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

Library of Congress

Domain(s):

[Peripheral / neighbouring domains], Information Management

Type of standard:

Name authority list

Describes / models / annotates:

Resource-specific metadata, Documents, Stakeholders and collaboration data, Experts / People, Institutions

Additional information

Publication year:

2011

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

HTML, JSON, N-Triples, RDF/XML

Namespace:

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

Download / dump:

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

RDF vocabulary

RDF "language":

SKOS

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

An overview of criteria used for the assessment can be found here.

Total score:

1.72

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Fairly complete but needs complementary vocabularies

Authoritative:

Yes

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Not clear - N/A

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Not clear - N/A

Discoverable:

Not clear - N/A

Regulatory:

Not clear - N/A

Endorsed:

Not clear - N/A

Long-term, sustainable:

Yes, reasonably

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

2.33

Avg adoption:

1.11

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Yes, 2-3 similar formats

Served by APIs:

Not clear - N/A

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Yes

Meaningful:

Yes

Annotated:

Yes

Referenceable:

Yes

Linked:

Not clear - N/A

Clearly licensed:

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

1.43

Avg openness:

2.00

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/19998

RDF

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