id.loc.gov service up

Posted on May 3, 2009, 11:22 am, by Ed Summers

On May 1st the id.loc.gov service was announced to the public. The service's first offering is the Library of Congress Subject Headings that were once present here on lcsh.info.

It was always my intention to use lcsh.info as an experimental space to inform a similar service at id.loc.gov. With the help of all the comments here and elsewhere on the utility of a library linked-data the service at loc.gov is now a reality.

You'll find that concept identifiers here at http://lcsh.info will now permanently redirect to http://id.loc.gov/authorities 

    uqbar:~ ed$ curl -I http://lcsh.info/sh95000541
    HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 14:46:25 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6
    PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 with Suhosin-Patch mod_wsgi/1.3
    Python/2.5.2
    Location: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95000541
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
This is to help people who have created links to lcsh.info and periodically scrub them. I plan on leaving lcsh.info up and running till January 1st, 2010 to give people time to notice the new URL for these resources.