On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
It would be great to have some external dataset to use in
ranking LCSH suggestions at id.loc.gov. But at the moment it's a
simple mysql db loaded up with some MARC LCSH data. I guess it could
do something smart with PageRank-like
Quoting Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu:
The frequency of an LCSH term within the LC catalog could also be
useful for ranking, although I'm not sure if such data would be
readily available.
Couple of things: first, what we have at id.loc.gov is NOT LCSH, but a
copy of the LC subject
If that isn't LCSH, then is the entirety of LCSH available electronically in
some capacity (at least available in some easily accessible file or files
that can be processed)?
Ethan
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Quoting Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Couple of things: first, what we have at id.loc.gov is NOT LCSH, but a copy
of the LC subject authority file. The entries in this file form the basis
for subject headings, most of which add facets to the authority entry when
I suppose it would be helpful to actually know the problem that is
trying to be solved here (I mean, a lot of people, including myself,
are throwing out solutions to a problem that's never been actually
defined).
Ethan, what, exactly, are you trying to do? Do you want authorized
headings? Or do
I am going to integrate subject headings into an XForms application. I can
work with the authorized headings. Before taking the XML file that LC
provides and doing my own thing with Solr, I wanted to see if anyone had
used the headings to do their own type of autosuggest. I was especially
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
my interest is how I (or other people
developing their own autosuggest systems based on the subject headings) can
pull updates of the master authority XML file into my index of terms.
Take a look at the Atom feed for
Thanks a lot, Ed!
I think that could work.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
my interest is how I (or other people
developing their own autosuggest systems based on the subject headings)
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