On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Tim Shearer wrote:
Given the likely need to map back from an alternate name (string search in the definition?) to the auth name (maybe the most common use for such a service?), I think this route might be on the inefficient side.
I'm not quite sure how this will turn out either, but for a good time I extracted bunches more authorities (subject, personal, corporate, and geographic) from the FRED data, stuffed them into my DICT server, and installed a CGI front-end. Try the following URLs, and they will return huge "tag clouds" whose links could point to definitions or searches against indexes: * blues - http://tinyurl.com/yt2db7 * lancaster - http://tinyurl.com/yw5hdr * librarianship - http://tinyurl.com/2baoxg In the end, I will probably use some other indexer to do this work, but this suite of DICT tools has a pretty low barrier to implementation. -- Eric Lease Morgan
