It doesn't seem very efficient.  It is taking me at least 30 seconds to load
a page of 'a*' in http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Houghton,Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Winona Salesky
> > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:00 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web
> > service
> >
> > Quoting Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > I have a need to integrate the LCSH terms into a web form that uses
> > > auto-suggest to control the vocabulary.  Is this technically possible
> > with
> > > the id.loc.gov service?
>
> Why can't you just add a "*" to the end of the data in your search form
> and send the request to the id.loc.gov search, per:
>
> <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/techcenter/searching.html>
>
> then parse the response?
>
>
> Andy.
>