Agents

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Let patrons go from a work to the people and organisations behind it, and on to everything else they have made.

1 of 2 supported 16 October 2026

1.3.1 View agent

Supported

Show a person or an organisation behind works, together with the works they are connected to.

What you can build

A page for an author, illustrator, narrator or organisation with their works at the library. Patrons get from a work they liked to what else the same person has written or contributed to.

Typical flow

The patron opens an agent, for example a creator on a work or a result from SearchAgents.
The client fetches the agent with GetAgents.
The client lists the agent's works with SearchWorks and the filter plas.agent.
The works can be grouped by the role the agent had, from roles on each contributor.

What the API provides

An agent has type person or collective. A collective is a group or organisation acting as one.
Every agent has fullName and can have images. A person can also have givenName, surname, birthDate and deathDate; active is a free-text period for persons whose dates are uncertain.
Only an agent with an id can be fetched with GetAgents or used with plas.agent.
Roles are codes from the MARC Code List for Relators (roleCode).

Calls in the API

Enabled in the configuration: GetSearchConfiguration

Calls behind the view

1.3.2 Follow contributor

Not yet

Let the patron follow an author or another contributor.