Highlights
- Search descriptions of controlled vocabularies
- Search for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabulary
- Retrieve a single concept/heading by its identifier
- View relationships for a concept/heading including equivalence, hierarchical, and associative
- Retrieve concepts/headings in multiple representations including HTML, MARC XML, SKOS, and Zthes.
- Search using SRU CQL syntax
Technical Resources
Vocabulary Resources
| Name: | Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) |
| Description: | Genre and form terms for library and archival materials. |
| Date: | 2012-11 |
| Identifier: | lcgft |
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| Name: | Book Industry Study Group Subject Headings (BISAC®). Used with permission. |
| Description: | A controlled vocabulary used within the North American book industry to describe the topical content of books. |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Identifier: | bisacsh |
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| Name: | Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST subject headings) |
| Description: | A controlled vocabulary based on the terminology of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). |
| Date: | 2012-05 |
| Identifier: | fast |
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| Name: | Form and genre headings for fiction and drama |
| Description: | Form and genre terms from the Guidelines On Subject Access To Individual Works Of Fiction, Drama, Etc., 2nd ed. |
| Date: | 2001-09 |
| Identifier: | gsafd |
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| Name: | Library of Congress AC Subject Headings |
| Description: | Headings for juvenile literature created for the Annotated Card (AC) program. Must be used in conjunction with LCSH. |
| Date: | 2012-11 |
| Identifier: | lcshac |
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| Name: | Library of Congress Subject Headings |
| Description: | A general subject heading vocabulary maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress. |
| Date: | 2012-11 |
| Identifier: | lcsh |
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| Name: | Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) |
| Description: | A controlled vocabulary for biomedical and health-related information produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
| Date: | 2012-04 |
| Identifier: | mesh |
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| Name: | Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I, Subject terms |
| Description: | Subject terms for graphic materials maintained by the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. |
| Date: | 2011-03 |
| Identifier: | lctgm |
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| Name: | Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II, Genre terms |
| Description: | Genre headings and terms for physical characteristics for graphic materials maintained by the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. |
| Date: | 2011-03 |
| Identifier: | gmgpc |
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| Name: | Controlled Vocabulary Metadata |
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| Description: | Descriptions of controlled vocabularies |
| Date: | 2012-05 |
| Identifier: | meta |
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