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 extension defined at: http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Suggestions/1.1 For example: curl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=folklore Or with an offset: curl "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=folklore&offset=50" It's something to throw darts at. Comments, questions, suggestions (ahem) welcome :-) //Ed