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The finto package provides tools to access the serivice for interoperable thesauri, ontologies and classification schemes for different subject areas.

Installation instructions

The devel version of finto can be installed from GitHub as follows:

# Install finto if not already installed
if (!requireNamespace("finto", quietly = TRUE)) {
  remotes::install_github("fennicahub/finto")
}
remotes::install_github("fennicahub/finto")

Example

The basic functionality of ‘finto’ can be explored as follows:

# Load the package
library(finto)
# Perform a simple search and print a table

concepts <- search_concepts("sibelius")
head(concepts)
uri type prefLabel altLabel lang vocab
http://www.yso.fi/onto/koko/p91024 skos:Concept, http://www.yso.fi/onto/mero-meta/Concept Sibelius (junat) NA fi koko
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mero/m11156 skos:Concept, http://www.yso.fi/onto/mero-meta/Concept Sibelius (junat) NA fi liiko

Contribute

Contributions are very welcome:

Disclaimer

This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Finto.

When using metadata retrieved from Finto database in your work, please indicate that the metadata source is Finto. If your re-use involves some kind of modification to data or text, please state this clearly to the end user. See Finto policy on copyright and free re-use of data for more detailed information and certain exceptions.