There's been some discussion of the AutoSuggest services we're offering on
the WorldCat Developers Network mailing list. We have AutoSuggest services
for our WorldCat Identities and VIAF databases. I'm attaching some of the
details for our Identities autosuggester below. The demonstration of the VIAF
autosuggester can be found at viaf.org/autosuggest.html.
Let me know if this looks useful.
Ralph
The new AutoSuggest service returns the following JSON in response to the
letter 'b' (http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/AutoSuggest?query=b):
{"query":"b","result":[
{"term":"Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750", "arn":"oca00255223",
"pndnumber":"102936056", "pndnumber":"13120193x",
"pndnumber":"123920671", "pndnumber":"11850553x",
"pndnumber":"11258019x","pndnumber":"103775625", "lccn":"n79-21425"},
{"term":"Boz, 1812-
1870","arn":"oca00222790","pndnumber":"118525239","lccn":"n78-87607"},
{"term":"Bloom,
Harold","arn":"oca00237457","pndnumber":"119176602","lccn":"n79-3258"},
{"term":"Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827", "arn":"oca00339691",
"pndnumber":"131205293", "pndnumber":"118508288", "lccn":"n79-107741"},
{"term":"Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821", "arn":"oca00288055",
"pndnumber":"131036114", "lccn":"n79-54933"},
{"term":"Bolatu","arn":"oca00370723","pndnumber":"118594893","lccn":"n79-
139459"},
{"term":"Blythe, William Jefferson, 1946-","arn":"oca00726781",
"pndnumber":"119063395","lccn":"n82-29644"},
{"term":"Bush, George W. 1946- (George Walker)", "arn":"oca03941398",
"pndnumber":"12145391x", "lccn":"no95-49848"},
{"term":"Blessed Virgin Mary,
Saint","arn":"oca00564383","pndnumber":"118711237","lccn":"n81-18544"},
{"term":"Boy, Ētkar, 1809-
1849","arn":"oca00263409","pndnumber":"11859527x","lccn":"n79-29745"}]}
You'll see that I'm returning every control number I can for each term.
All the URL's previously posted are still good, but here they are again:
Example use of the service:
http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/autosuggest.html.
The AutoSuggest service for Identities:
http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/AutoSuggest
The SRU database underlying the service:
http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/search/AutoSuggestIdentities
