OCLC Terminology Services

Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.

Highlights

• Search descriptions of controlled vocabularies
• Search for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabulary
• Retrieve a single concept/heading by its identifier
• View relationships for a concept/heading including equivalence, hierarchical, and associative
• Retrieve concepts/headings in multiple representations including HTML, MARC XML, SKOS, and Zthes.
• Search using SRU CQL syntax

Vocabulary Resources include:

• FAST subject headings
• GSAFD Form and genre terms
• Library of Congress AC Subject Headings
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Medical Subject Headings
• Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I
• Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II