Access the 'Finto' API

Access and retrieve vocabulary data 'Finto' API < https://api.finto.fi/>, which is a centralized service for interoperable thesauri, ontology and classification schemes for different subject areas.

finto

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)

Contribute

Contributions are very welcome:

• Use issue tracker for feedback and bug reports.
• Send pull requests
• Star us on the Github page

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.