Michael - Thanks for the code snippet -- I will take a stab at putting it into
practice when I have a few minutes.
Ed -- The TGN can be searched for free on a one-off basis by going to
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
If you want access to the raw data
The TGN is still behind a pay-firewall right? Not that that means it
isn't legit conversation on here (because it is) -- but just curious
what the current state is.
//Ed
I spent a little time dealing with that set of huge XML files and wrote a crude
java STaX parser (Streaming API for Xml) that constructed objects as it passed
through the file, dumping them into a database. It currently ignores most of
the content and just captures a few fields (by name and
