Open data
Harvesting the catalogue
The Freeman Library Catalogue is available to union catalogues, discovery services and reference managers through two standard, read-only interfaces. Neither requires an account or a key.
OAI-PMH 2.0
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting lets a harvester fetch every record, then return periodically for only the records that have changed.
- Base URL
- https://freemanlibrary.ie/oai
- Metadata formats
marc21,oai_dc(Dublin Core and MARCXML)- Identifiers
oai:freemanlibrary.ie:book/<id>, for exampleoai:freemanlibrary.ie:book/1- Deleted records
transient: a deletion is reported in incremental harvests as a header withstatus="deleted"- Sets
- None. The repository is harvested as a whole.
SRU 1.2
Search/Retrieve via URL answers searches written in CQL (Contextual Query Language) with MARCXML records. The explain record at the base URL lists the supported indexes and limits.
- Base URL
- https://freemanlibrary.ie/sru
- Record schema
marcxml- Indexes
cql.serverChoice,dc.title,dc.creator,dc.publisher,dc.date,bath.isbn,issn
Content and re-use
- What the repository holds
- Catalogue records for the printed holdings of the Freeman Library, the departmental library of the Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin. Records describe books and journals held in the library. No full text or digital objects are available.
- Metadata policy
- Metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). It may be harvested and re-used in any medium, for any purpose, without prior permission or attribution.
- Data policy
- The repository contains metadata only. It holds no full-text content or digital objects, so no data policy applies.
Questions about harvesting: shugel@tcd.ie.