Covo.js looks useful, but the sample proxy and example materials still leave me with the same problem I have right now: I'm not sure what URL to point my requests at to retrieve data. Covo.js is good inspiration for me, but I don't think I can use it because my autosuggest box is actually a mashup of several different sources (LibraryH3lp FAQs, LibGuides guide names and tags, custom autosuggest terms, website pages, and finally the LOC authority stuff I am asking about now).
Josh Welker -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of diego ferreyra Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:03 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API May be covo.js can help you: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5994 https://github.com/haseharu/covojs 2013/6/4 Andreas Orphanides <akorp...@ncsu.edu> > Something something Simon Spero something something OWL something LOC > hierarchy? > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Michael J. Giarlo < > leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote: > > > How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered autosuggest feature? > > > > mjg@moby:~$ curl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Biology > > ["Biology",["Biology","Biology Colloquium","Biology Curators' > > Group","Biology Databook Editorial Board (U.S.)","Biology and Earth > > Sciences Teaching Institute","Biology and Management of True Fir in > > the Pacific Northwest Symposium (1981 : Seattle, Wash.)","Biology > > and > Resource > > Management Program (Alaska Cooperative Park Studies Unit)","Biology > > and behavior series","Biology and environment (Macmillan > > Press)","Biology and management of old-growth forests"],["1 > > result","1 result","1 result","1 > > result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 > > result"],["http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014203","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006962","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90639795","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85100466","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97041787","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85276541","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82057525","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90605518","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001011448","; > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94028058";]] > > > > -Mike > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Joshua Welker <jwel...@sbuniv.edu> > wrote: > > > > > I did see that, and it will work in a pinch. But the authority > > > file is pretty massive--almost 1GB-- and would be difficult to > > > handle in an automated way and without completely killing my web > > > app due to memory constraints while searching the file. Thanks, though. > > > > > > Josh Welker > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bryan Baldus [mailto:bryan.bal...@quality-books.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:39 PM > > > To: Code for Libraries; Joshua Welker > > > Subject: RE: LOC Subject Headings API > > > > > > On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:31 PM, Joshua Welker > > > [jwel...@sbuniv.edu] > > > wrote: > > > >I am building an auto-suggest feature into our library's search > > > >box, > and > > > I am wanting to include LOC subject headings in my suggestions list. > Does > > > anyone know of any web service that allows for automated > > > harvesting of > > LOC > > > Subject Headings? I am also looking for name authorities, for that > > matter. > > > Any format will be acceptable to me: RDF, XML, JSON, HTML, CSV... > > > I > have > > > spent a while Googling with no luck, but this seems like the sort > > > of general-purpose thing that a lot of people would be interested > > > in. I > feel > > > like I must be missing something. Any help is appreciated. > > > > > > Have you seen http://id.loc.gov/ with bulk downloads in various > formats > > > at http://id.loc.gov/download/ > > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > Bryan Baldus > > > Senior Cataloger > > > Quality Books Inc. > > > The Best of America's Independent Presses > > > 1-800-323-4241x402 > > > bryan.bal...@quality-books.com > > > eij...@cpan.org > > > http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/ > > > > > > -- Diego Ferreyra
