Registry Library of Congress Authority

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A sub-registry of the Library of Congress Linked Data Service

Prefix: loc.authority
Keywords: registry
Links: Homepage Request Discussion Part of loc

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: subjects Resolve
Example CURIE: loc.authority:subjects

Contacts

Contact: Missing Contact
Contributors: submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Providers

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

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
Library of Congress Authority	`loc.authority`	https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/loc.authority:subjects

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.authority")
'Library of Congress Authority'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("loc.authority")
'https://id.loc.gov/authorities'