Registry Library of Congress MARC Countries

The MARC Code List for Countries contains a list of places and their associated two- or three-character lowercase alphabetic codes.

Prefix: loc.countries
Keywords
Links: Homepage RDF Request Discussion Part of loc

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: aj Resolve
Example CURIE: loc.countries:aj

Contacts

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

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix	Curate
BARTOC	`bartoc`	`18904`

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 aj is used to demonstrate the providers available for Library of Congress MARC Countries. 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 MARC Countries	`loc.countries`	http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries/aj
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/loc.countries:aj

This name annotation was originally annotated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications and is redistributed under the PDDL 1.0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("loc.countries")
'Library of Congress MARC Countries'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("loc.countries")
'http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries'

Get the RDF download link:

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