Carol Bean
beanwo...@gmail.com
Great talk idea but not getting to present it at the Code4Lib Conference?
Consider submitting it as an article proposal for the Code4Lib Journal! The
deadline for proposals is this Friday, December 11. There is a handy
submission form on the journal
Hi all,
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? I can curl a specific id to view the rdf, but I
would need to know the specifics of the search index on the site to feed
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
We are also very interested in doing this at UVM. We have been storing
the files locally as well, and it pretty cumbersome.
-Winona
Quoting Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
I have a need to integrate the LCSH terms into a web form that uses
auto-suggest to control the vocabulary.
mod_cache might help, assuming that performance gets better as your
query string grows.
--Doug
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't seem very efficient. It is taking me at least 30 seconds to load
a page of 'a*' in
Here in OCLC Research we've been experimenting with AutoSuggester
services. The folks in charge of our copy of LCSH are considering
putting up an AutoSuggester for that. I'll let you know in the next
couple of days how that goes.
To make the service work at keystroke speeds, we've had to
Delaying the autosuggest until three or four characters have been
entered should save some time.
Unfortunately, the search results aren't very digestible. The query
term is matched anywhere in the heading, and only 30 results are
returned per page. So, for example, the first page of a search for
Thanks for the input so far.
Ben, another problem with digestibility of the search results is that it's
not XHTML, and therefore not well-formed XML, making it impossible to
process with XPath.
I think I'll experiment with the Solr solution, but like the AutoSuggester
being developed at OCLC,
It has an OpenSearch interface:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/opensearch
But I don't think there's a way to explicitly limit to, say, the
beginning of a label.
lcsubjects.org has a sparql interface where you could use a regex
filter on the labels:
Every heard of LAMs? LAMs is short for “Libraries Archives and
Museums.” The Smithsonian is a fine example! And now you can
experience some of the information held in the Smithsonian LAMs!
The Smithsonian Institution has launched a New Collections Search
Center on its website.
Ethan,
In PHP5 you can do Xpath on non-XHTML HTML. You just need to set it to
ignore the errors. I discovered this when trying to do some screen scraping.
The HH I found helpful is at
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_06_23_index.html#108802750834787821
Now sure it is helpful to you, but I
Just an FYI that a LinkedIn event has been created for the Code4Lib 2010
conference in Asheville, NC.
See http://events.linkedin.com/Code4Lib-2010/pub/180483
LinkedIn events allow you to indicate whether you are interested and/or
attending and/or presenting. It looks like it is also
In the interests of all-that-is-agile, and the HolidaySeason™ I took a
quick (imperfect) stab at providing some basic suggest functionality
at id.loc.gov which you can find documented in the OpenSearch
Description:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/opensearch/
I used the OpenSearch Suggestions
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
Ben, another problem with digestibility of the search results is that it's
not XHTML, and therefore not well-formed XML, making it impossible to
process with XPath.
What page did you find that wasn't valid XHTML? The JSON
That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a
suggestion. You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough characters
to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational number.
An example of the difference between an Index Browse and
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a
suggestion. You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough
characters to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of
Ed Summers
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:39 PM
What are you using for relevancy ranking in the VIAF AutoSuggester?
For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions
that have controlled that name and the amount of attention the
institutions have given to that name (e.g. size of their respective name
authority records).
How about feeding back from web request stats?
Things that get pulled more often are probably more popular.
It's admittedly not very clever, but it would be easy to implement...
---
A. Soroka
Digital Research and Scholarship R D
the University of Virginia Library
On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:56
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