An API (Application Programming Interface) is an tool allowing a remote software agent to query and retrieve data from a database.

An API access to the Loterre triplestore is available by means of the REST API developed for Skosmos:

• the Base URL of the API is: https://skosmos.loterre.fr/rest/v1/
• for information on how to use the Skosmos API, see documentation: http://api.finto.fi/doc/

Examples of requests

• A list, in English, of the vocabularies stored in the triplestore, formated in JSON-LD

/rest/v1/vocabularies?lang=en

• The number of labels per language for the “Electronic” vocabulary, formated in JSON-LD

/rest/v1/RDR/labelStatistics

• The list of the concepts of the “Prehistory-Protohistory” vocabulary for which the English label includes a word beginning with the letter B, formated in JSON-LD

/rest/v1/905/search?query=B*&lang=en