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

lcnaf lcnafid

Keywords

subject agnostic

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

nb2018006591   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:nb2018006591

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

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

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 nb2018006591 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Library of Congress Subject Headings. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.