Web Services
| Title | Status | What is It | What it does | Query Protocols | Record Formats |
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| assignFAST | Experimental | Developer access to a web service that provides autocomplete style searching of FAST Authorized and See Also Headings. Returns the Authorized Heading and associated information needed to enter it into a cataloging interface. |
Provides searching of FAST Authorized and See Also Headings, returns the Authorized Heading and associated information needed to enter it into a cataloging interface. An example of the use of this Web Service is assignFAST. Gadgets using this are also available for the OCLC WorldShare Platform or other OpenSocial portals. |
REST |
JSON |
| Classify | Experimental | Classify books, videos, CDs and other materials based on identifier: ISBN or OCLC Number |
Allows you to retrieve a classification (Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress) based on an identifier (ISBN, OCLC Number) |
REST | Classify specific XML |
| Dewey Web Services | Experimental | Portion of Dewey Decimal classification represented as Linked Data |
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REST, SPARQL |
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| FAST Linked Data API | Experimental | A Faceted Authority file based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) |
Data from this web services is licensed under ODC-By. |
REST, SRU |
RDF, MARC21 |
| LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) | Experimental | Developer access to a database of LC Authority records extracted from WorldCat. |
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SRU |
XML |
| MapFAST | Experimental | Developer-level access to FAST Subject headings based on geographic coordinates. The Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) schema reworks LCSH's authority rules so that they are easier to use, understand, and apply. The result is a schema designed to handle a large volume of materials with less effort and cost. |
Provides search access to FAST Geographic and Event subject headings based on proximity of those headings to a given set of coordinates. For example, the MapFAST web service could be used to retrieve a list FAST subject headings near the coordinates: latitude longitude. |
REST |
JSON |
| Metadata Crosswalk Service | Experimental | Web Service to transform metadata from one format to another |
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SOAP |
Records can be transformed into
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| Terminology Services | Experimental | Machine-readable access to a suite of seven controlled vocabularies and thesauri |
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REST, SRU |
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| Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) | Experimental | Authority data from 22 agencies in 19 countries, representing a variety of formats. |
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SRU, Open Search |
RSS, RDF, MARC21, UNIMARC, VIAF XML format, HTML |
| WorldCat Recommender Service | Experimental | This method provides recommendations for books and other materials based on data in WorldCat. |
The web service uses various characteristics of a sample work, such as classification numbers, subject headings, and genre terms, to provide a list of related works found in WorldCat. The list of recommendations may include books, ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video. Developers can use the standard number (OCLC or ISBN) to search for recommendations. Recommendations can be scoped to only those materials that are held by a particular library that participates in WorldCat.org. Kindred Works is a sample application that uses the experimental WorldCat recommender service. The Kindred Works prototype is available at http://experimental.worldcat.org/kindredworks/. |
REST |
XML |
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