Sample OAI-PMH requests

Sample Requests Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH v 2.0)

These links and requests return XML. They are best used in an XML-aware browser or viewing application, for example, Internet Explorer (v 5.0 or newer).

Try some pre-configured requests to LC's data provider service for records for selected digitized items from LC's historical collections:

• Identify
• ListSets
• ListMetadataFormats
• ListRecords (Sheet Music)
• ListIdentifiers (Maps)
• ListIdentifiers
• Get Record (sample map record in simple Dublin Core format)
• Get Record (same map record in marc21 (MARCXML) format)
• Get Record (same map record in MODS format)

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