Last Updated: May 23, 2008

 

Item-level metadata for selected Library of Congress collections of historical materials is available for harvesting using Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) version 2.0. Available are records from selected collections presented online through American Memory, Global Gateway, the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, and Chronicling America.

For an article about how and why the Library of Congress implemented OAI-PMH, see Available and Useful: OAI at the Library of Congress, 2003.

The baseURL for harvesting these records is http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0. To learn more about the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the harvesting protocol, see www.openarchives.org (external link).

|| Records are harvestable as sets organized by content type  ||

• Books (11 individual sets, combined set)
• Digitized collections (1 set)
• Ephemera, Pamphlets (1 set)
• Maps, Atlases (1 set)
• Photos (27 individual sets, combined set)
• Posters (2 individual sets, combined set)
• Other Still Visual (4 individual sets, combined set)
• Motion Pictures (1 set)
• Sheet Music (1 set)
• Digitized Collections (1 set)
• Serials (1 set)