Dear Techies,
Wondering about creating quizzes and using digital badges in LibGuides
CMS. Is this something that some of you currently do? Would you recommend
SpringShare as the platform to host this kind of interaction? We use D2L
at my institution, but we don't currently use digital badges
You could always web scrape, or download and then search the LCNAF with
some script that looks like:
#Build query for webscraping
query = paste(http://id.loc.gov/search/?q=;, URLencode(corporate name
here ), q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames)
#Make the call
result =
The ID.loc.gov site has a good known label service described here under known
label retrieval :
http://id.loc.gov/techcenter/searching.html
Use Curl and content negotiation to avoid screen scraping, for example, for LC
Name authorities:
curl -L -H Accept: application/rdf+xml
For yet another data set and API that may or may not meet your needs,
consider VIAF -- Virtual International Authority File, operated by OCLC.
The VIAF's dataset includes the LC NAF as well as other national
authority files, I'm not sure if the API is suitable to limiting matches
to the LC
IMO, API isn't the best tool for this job. My inclination would be to just
download the LCNAF data, normalize source and comparison data, and then
compare via hash.
That will be easier to write, and you'll be able to do thousands of
comparisons per second.
kyle
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:24 AM,
As Brad mentioned, one of the most interesting takeaways from this
conversation on LibGuides is the (lack of) recognized best practices in the
library community. If the folks here are representative at all, this is a
big void in our profession. This is not an acceptable state, IMO, because as
more
What is the link to the downloadable LCNAF data? -- Jean
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
KB IMO, API isn't the best tool for this job. My inclination would be to just
KB download the LCNAF data, normalize source and comparison data, and then
KB compare via hash.
KB
KB That will be
After a quick search, http://id.loc.gov/download/ looks like the place to
go. I haven't downloaded it myself, but the file sizes make it look like
the right stuff.
kyle
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jean Roth jr...@nber.org wrote:
What is the link to the downloadable LCNAF data? -- Jean
Thank you! It looks like the files are available as RDF/XML, Turtle, or
N-triples files.
Any examples or suggestions for reading any of these formats?
The MARC Countries file is small, 31-79 kb. I assume a script that
would read a small file like that would at least be a start for the LCNAF
I think this sounds fascinating and like it would be awesome. Though it's
above my tech paygrade so that's pretty much all I can say...
--
Brad Coffield, MLIS
Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian
Saint Francis University
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bcoffi...@francis.edu
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Hi all,
Apologies, have got distracted from mailing lists and missed these replies last
week...
The existing app is called Datacard and I know very little about it - installed
before my time by another department, etc. But basically it prints our library
cards, so it needs the appropriate
The best way to handle them depends on what you want to do. You need to
actually download the NAF files rather than countries or other small files
as different kinds of data will be organized differently. Just don't try to
read multigigabyte files in a text editor :)
If you start with one of the
Your best bet, IMHO, would be to write an app that pulls the info, formats it
and sends it to the printer. The Datacard software would not likely be a good
candidate for modification.
You might want to contact Datacard, but I don't think that you will get very
far. They make and sell printers.
Hello,
I don't think that there is anything like this. I think there are some lone
wolves out there who have suggested standards, but I haven't seen anything
similar to what has been discussed. If there were, I'd think one of us would
know about it.
Count me in!
I say we create flexible
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