In last 2008, The U.S. Library of Congress requested the take-down of linked, open data services for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) at the popular site “lcsh.info”. This caused some consternation in the Web architecture community, and the agency has made an announcement of a forthcoming, official linked data service at ID.LOC.GOV .
Zepheira is presently kicking off work with LC to continue in this spirit of open content and data through open services. We expect ID.LOC.GOV to be an important complement to this effort.