Here's a quick summary of the endpoints I tend to use, and some of their documentation.
| vocabulary | endpoint | API Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| AAT | http://vocab.getty.edu/sparql | Getty Vocabularies: SPARQL endpoint |
| Europeana | https://www.europeana.eu/api/ | Europeana Record API |
| FAST (read) | http://id.worldcat.org/fast | FAST Linked Data API |
| FAST (Autosuggest) | http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/fastsuggest | FAST Linked Data API |
| FAST (SRUSearch) | http://id.worldcat.org/fast/search | FAST Linked Data API |
| FAST (search, actually the best results) | http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/search | not documented as an official endpoint idk? |
| GeoNames | https://sws.geonames.org/ | GeoNames Web Services Documentation |
| Internet Archive | http://archive.org/metadata/ | Internet Archive Developer Portal |
| Library of Congress Authorities | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/ | LOC Linked Data Service: Technical Center |
| VIAF | http://www.viaf.org/viaf/ | VIAF Authority Cluster Resource |
| python library | main purpose | docs |
|---|---|---|
| bs4 | Parses XML | https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ |
| pandas | Everything tabular data | https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/index.html |
| requests | Sends HTTP requests | https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/ |
| rdflib | Parses RDF/XML, N3, NTriples, Turtle, etc. | https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html |
| xml.etree.ElementTree | Parses XML | https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#module-xml.etree.ElementTree |
Starting data: A spreadsheet that searches a string heading in LCNAF and FAST and produces a URI if there is an exact match.
APIs: Library of Congress Authorities, FAST (SRUSearch)
Confirms the heading is authorized by retrieving the URIs and label from the APIs.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with strings of possible FAST headings.
APIs: FAST (Autosuggest), FAST (SRUSearch)
Finds exact and close matches to FAST subject headings.
Starting data: Europeana item identifier as variable item.
APIs: Europeana
Downloads item record in JSON-LD, and saves as file "query.json."
Starting data: Internet Archive item identifier as variable internet_id.
APIs: Internet Archive
Downloads item record in JSON and saves metadata in CSV.
Starting data: Entity id from WikiData.
APIs: Wikidata
Finds properties of entity and saves in CSV.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with FAST or VIAF identifiers.
APIs: none
Converts FAST and VIAF identifiers to URIs.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with geographic headers (from FAST or LCNAF).
APIs: FAST (read), Library of Congress Authorities, GeoNames
Convert geographic names from LCNAF to geonames identifiers. Example: Baltimore County (Md.) n79018713 is converted to Baltimore County https://www.geonames.org/4347790. It also builds full hierarchical name: Baltimore County, Maryland, United States from GeoNames.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with Library of Congress Subject Headings.
APIs: FAST (read), Library of Congress Authorities
Converts LCSH to one or more FAST headings.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with year dates from 1800s onwards.
APIs: none
Converts years into written out decades as given in FAST.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with FAST identifiers.
APIs: FAST (read)
Retrieves alternative identifiers from other authorities (VIAF, GeoNames, LCSH, etc.) given in FAST records.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with FAST identifiers.
APIs: FAST (read)
Converts the FAST identifier to a link, gets the rdf.xml record, and extracts the facet information (topical, geographical, corporate name, meeting or event, personal name, uniform title, form, period).
Starting data: A spreadsheet of VIAF URIs formatted like https://viaf.org/viaf/149920363. The script won't work if there is an ending dash (ex: https://viaf.org/viaf/149920363/).
APIs: VIAF, Library of Congress Authorities
Takes a list of VIAF URIs from a spreadsheet, finds the LCNAF authority record, and extracts the facet information from the rdf.xml record.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with URIs from the FAST, Library of Congress Authorities, GeoNames, VIAF, or AAT vocabularies.
APIs: FAST (read), Library of Congress Authorities, GeoNames, VIAF, AAT
Retrieves the authorized heading or label from the correct vocabulary using the URIs.
Starting data: A spreadsheet of VIAF URIs formatted like https://viaf.org/viaf/149920363. The script won't work if there is an ending dash (ex: https://viaf.org/viaf/149920363/).
APIs: VIAF, Library of Congress Authorities
Takes a list of VIAF URIs from a spreadsheet, finds the LCNAF authority record, and extracts the name components from the .marcxml.xml record.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with Library of Congress Names.
APIs: Library of Congress Authorities
Retrieves the LCNAF URI for the searched named and grabbed alternative identifiers from other authorities (FAST and LC Authorities (LCNAF, LCSH, LCGFT)) in the records.
Starting data: String in variable label_search.
APIs: AAT
Retrieves AAT URI by searching for the label in the API.
Starting data: A spreadsheet with FAST string headings.
APIs: FAST (read), FAST (search)
Retrieves FAST URIs by searching for the heading in the API.