Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread LeVan,Ralph
. This might work. Thanks! Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API I once put all

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread Joshua Welker
on the server. This might work. Thanks! Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API I

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread Karen Coyle
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API I once put all of the LCSH headings into a local Solr index and used TermsComponent to power autosuggest. It was really

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread Joshua Welker
I finished the project. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I ended up using the OCLC Fast API (fast.oclc.org/searchfast/fastsuggest) rather than saving everything locally. Tracking down the entire LCSH authority listing and parsing it into a simple data format was just unwieldy. The

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread Ross Singer
Do FAST headings match anything? I guess what I mean is, do you have data that uses FAST headings? If not, what is it matching? -Ross. On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Joshua Welker wrote: I finished the project. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I ended up using the OCLC Fast API

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread diego ferreyra
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:05 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered autosuggest feature? mjg@moby:~$ curl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Biology

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:05 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered autosuggest feature? mjg@moby:~$ curl http://id.loc.gov/authorities

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Joshua, There are different formats at LOC: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html dana On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Joshua Welker

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Joshua, There are different formats at LOC: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html dana On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Joshua Welker jwel...@sbuniv.edu wrote: I am building an auto-suggest feature

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Kaile Zhu
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: 2013年6月5日 8:22 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API You'd write some javascript to query the service with every keystroke, e.g. http://id.loc.gov

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:05 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API This would work, except I would need a way to get all the subjects rather than

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:41 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Are you referring to hierarchical sets of terms, like United States-- History--War with Mexico, 1845-1848? This is an earlier established term of http

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
to give up on this project. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API You'd write some

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Amanda French
Hi Josh, You might ask on the Omeka developers' list about how the Omeka development team created their LC Suggest plugin -- they could probably give you tips. Here's the listserv: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/omeka-dev and here's a description of the plugin:

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Josh, Can you say more about how the API isn't behaving as you expected

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Josh, Can you say more about how the API isn't behaving as you expected it to? -Mike On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Welker jwel...@sbuniv.edu wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Aaron Coburn
As a somewhat different approach to this, you may wish to consider using Apache Stanbol [1]. Briefly, Stanbol is a system for building semantic web applications. Among other things, it allows you to import the LOC data as n-triples (either in SKOS or MADS/RDF format) [2]. The data is stored in

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Josh, Can you say more about how the API isn't behaving as you expected it to? -Mike On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Welker

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Keith Jenkins
the LCSH master file is so big that it basically crashes the server. Do you really want to use the full LCSH, or just the subset that exists in your local catalog? Or, to put it another way: do you really want to provide the user with search suggestions that will result in zero hits? Keith

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Karen Coyle
work. Thanks! Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API I once put all of the LCSH headings

[CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Welker
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Dana Pearson
Joshua, There are different formats at LOC: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html dana On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Bryan Baldus
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Welker
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-04 Thread Andreas Orphanides
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