Controlled Authorities/Vocabularies
- LC Linked Data Service (id.loc.gov) - Includes one-stop lookup access to:
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) - Used for subjects/topics/geographic subdivisions.
- Library of Congress Name Authority Files (LCNAF) - Used for persons, organizations, events, places, and titles.
- CHF is part of the Name Authority Cooperative (NACO), so can directly contribute to authorized name records.
- Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) - Used to describe what a work is (as opposed to LCSH) and its format.
- For example, "Horror films" could be an LCSH subject for a book on about horror films, but can also be a LCGFT term for movies where "horror" is the genre and "film" is the form.
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) - Used for visual materials. Includes specialized subject and genre/format terms for photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and etc.
LC Linked Data Service also contains many other vocabularies, but the above would be the most initially relevant for CHF.
- Getty Vocabularies