Codelists

This is the home page of the Library of Congress Codelists.

Codelist Files | URIs

Codelist  Files

Codelist Schema

Table of Codelists and their Files (XML and HTML)

 

Codelist

Files

languages

xml  html

countries

xml  html

gacs

(geographical
areas)
xml  html

sources

   

conventions

   

resourceTypes

xml   

 


URIs

Codelists as well as the individual codes are identified by URIs, as shown in the following table.

Codelist Codelist URI Example Code Code For: URI for that code
languages
info:lc/vocabulary/languages
abk
Abkhaz
info:lc/vocabulary/languages/abk
countries
info:lc/vocabulary/countries
ao
Angola
info:lc/vocabulary/countries/ao
gacs
info:lc/vocabulary/gacs
pows
Samoa
info:lc/vocabulary/gacs/pows
sources
info:lc/vocabulary/sources
test
Thesaurus of engineering and scientific terms
info:lc/vocabulary/sources/test
conventions
info:lc/vocabulary/conventions
rad
Rules for archival description
info:lc/vocabulary/conventions/rad
resourceTypes
info:lc/vocabulary/resourceTypes
nomu
notated music
info:lc/vocabulary/resourceTypes/nomu