Linked data and URIs -- #4 Example of an Authority Record URI

Here’s part of a record from the Library of Congress’ catalog for a work by Colin Murphy. Notice that the 100 field has URIs entered in subfields $0, $1, and $4. We’ll look at the link in the subfield $0 first:

 

 

If you paste the link from the $0 into a browser, you’ll be brought to the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service:

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

• URI(s)
• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014111945
• Identifies LC/NAF RWO
• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014111945
• Identifies RWO
• https://isni.org/isni/0000000436813417 
• Associated Locale  Ireland 

• Field Of Activity Field of Activity: Journalism
• Occupation Occupation: Journalists
• Occupation Occupation: Playwrights
• Occupation Occupation: Screenwriters
• Occupation Occupation: Filmmaker
• Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
• http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cno2014111945 
• Sources
• found: Somerville-Large, Peter. The Mount Street Club, 2014:title page (Colin Murphy)
• found: The Mount Street Club book website, viewed Aug. 22, 2014(Colin Murphy; journalist, film, and documentary maker who writes for politico.ie and various Irish and British papers) - http://mountstreetclub.com/?page_id=154
• found: A day in May, 2022:t.p. (Colin Murphy)
• found: Amazon author page, Aug. 22, 2023:(Colin Murphy is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and journalist)
• LC Classification PR6113.U7667 -- Assigner: DLC
• Instance Of
• MADS/RDF PersonalName
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept 
• Scheme Membership(s)
• Library of Congress Name Authority File
• Collection Membership(s)
• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection
• Change Notes
• 2014-08-22: new
• 2025-08-04: revised
• Alternate Formats
• RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML

You might notice that this authority record contains a lot of information not traditionally found in authority records (such as alternate markup formats). Some of this information is intended to facilitate linked data applications. Here’s the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ traditional authority file:

LC control no.: no2014111945

LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2014111945 (link opens in a new tab)

000   01100cz a2200241n 4500

001   9638516

005   20250804200623.9

008  140822n| azannaabn |n aaa c

010 _ _  $a no2014111945

035 _ _  $a (OCoLC)oca09942879

035 _ _  $a 9638516

040 _ _  $a TNJ $b eng $e rda $c TNJ $d InNd $d DLC

053 0  _ $a PR6113.U7667

100 1 _ $a Murphy, Colin $c (Journalist)

370 _ _  $c Ireland $c Great Britain $2 naf

372 _ _  $a Journalism $2 lcsh

374 _ _  $a Journalists $a Playwrights $a Screenwriters $2 lcdgt

374 _ _  $a Filmmaker

670 _ _  $a Somerville-Large, Peter. The Mount Street Club, 2014: $b title page (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _  $a The Mount Street Club book website, viewed Aug. 22, 2014 $b (Colin Murphy; journalist, film, and documentary maker who writes for politico.ie and various Irish and British papers) $u http://mountstreetclub.com/?page_id=154

670 _ _  $a A day in May, 2022: $b t.p. (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _  $a Amazon author page, Aug. 22, 2023: $b (Colin Murphy is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and journalist)

999 f f $i 522cb403-480c-4675-be7f-40dddc0f88d0 $s f11e8ed5-b846-4d88-85f8-b56e71fc7dc1

 In the next post, we’ll look at the “Real World Object” (RWO) record for the journalist Colin Murphy, accessed through the URI in the subfield $1

This is the fourth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.