It doesn't seem very efficient. It is taking me at least 30 seconds to load a page of 'a*' in http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Houghton,Andrew <hough...@oclc.org> wrote: > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > > Winona Salesky > > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:00 AM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web > > service > > > > Quoting Ethan Gruber <ewg4x...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I have a need to integrate the LCSH terms into a web form that uses > > > auto-suggest to control the vocabulary. Is this technically possible > > with > > > the id.loc.gov service? > > Why can't you just add a "*" to the end of the data in your search form > and send the request to the id.loc.gov search, per: > > <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/techcenter/searching.html> > > then parse the response? > > > Andy. >
