British National Bibliography vs Vedic Society

The British National Bibliography is the British Library's record of everything published in the UK and Ireland since 1950, now published as BIBFRAME/RDA linked open data through the multi-national "Share Family" platform. Its original bnb.data.bl.uk endpoint has been offline since the Library's October 2023 cyber-attack destroyed its digital infrastructure; the catalog has since resurfaced on a beta institutional search portal, per the Library's own service-status and metadata-services pages.

The companion API to Rig Veda in Anindita Basu's Indica project, this one is a lexicon rather than a hymn index: it returns Nagari script, transliteration, category (flora, fauna, geography, kinship, and more), and meaning for nouns drawn from Vedic literature, via /words/{word}, /descriptions/{description}, and /categories/{category} endpoints. Like its sibling API, the stored docs URL had moved from a flat /html/vs.html page (now a 404) to the site's restructured /topics/ path; the live keyless backend at indica-1hwj.onrender.com/vs/v2 echoed a live Origin header back on a real /words/ash call, confirming CORS is open rather than unknown.