I think I prefer the FAST auto-suggest results to the LOC one. Thanks!

Josh Welker


-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

There's also an autosuggester for FAST.

http://oclc.org/developer/services/assignfast

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 4:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: LOC Subject Headings API

If you don't have to use LCSH... the Agrovoc thesaurus has a term suggester API:

try http://foris.fao.org/agrovoc/

It's actually easier to use than LCSH because the terms are not pre-coordinated.

kc

On 6/5/13 9:58 AM, Joshua Welker wrote:
> Hmm, that is pretty smart. I am actually hoping to roll this whole thing into a plugin for Wordpress/Drupal, so if possible I want to avoid using anything that is going to require server configuration (ie setting up Solr). But I bet I could just roll all the LCSH data into an SQLite file and then search it with PHP on the server.
>
> This might work. Thanks!
>
> Josh Welker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
> Of Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API
>
> I once put all of the LCSH headings into a local Solr index and used TermsComponent to power autosuggest.  It was really fast.
>
> Ethan
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I realized since I made that comment that the API is designed to give 
>> the top 10 subject heading suggestions rather than all of them.
>>
>> So that part is fine. But I am once again unsure if the API will work 
>> for me. I am creating a mashup of several data sources for my 
>> auto-suggest feature, and I am having a hard time dynamically adding 
>> the results from the LOC Suggest API to the existing collection of 
>> data that is used to populate my jQuery UI Autocomplete field.
>> Ideally, I'd like to be able to have all the LC Subject Heading data 
>> cached on my server so that I can build my autocomplete data source 
>> one time rather than having to deal with dynamically adding, sorting, 
>> etc. But then the problem I run into is that the LCSH master file is so big that it basically crashes the server.
>>
>> That's why I'm thinking I might have to give up on this project.
>>
>> Josh Welker
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
>> Of Michael J. Giarlo
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:59 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API
>>
>> Josh,
>>
>> Can you say more about how the API isn't behaving as you expected it to?
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> I went with this method and made some good progress, but the results 
>>> the API was returning were not what I expected. I might have to give 
>>> up on this project.
>>>
>>> Josh Welker
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
>>> Of Ethan Gruber
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:22 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API
>>>
>>> You'd write some javascript to query the service with every 
>>> keystroke,
>> e.g.
>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Hi replies with subjects 
>>> beginning with "hi*"  It looks like covo.js supports LCSH, so you 
>>> could look into that.
>>>
>>> Ethan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>> This would work, except I would need a way to get all the subjects 
>>>> rather than just biology. Any idea how to do that? I tried removing 
>>>> the querystring from the URL and changing "Biology" in the URL to ""
>>>> with no success.
>>>>
>>>> Josh Welker
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
>>>> Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:05 PM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API
>>>>
>>>> How about id.loc.gov's OpenSearch-powered autosuggest feature?
>>>>
>>>> mjg@moby:~$ curl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Biology
>>>> ["Biology",["Biology","Biology Colloquium","Biology Curators'
>>>> Group","Biology Databook Editorial Board (U.S.)","Biology and Earth 
>>>> Sciences Teaching Institute","Biology and Management of True Fir in 
>>>> the Pacific Northwest Symposium (1981 : Seattle, Wash.)","Biology 
>>>> and Resource Management Program (Alaska Cooperative Park Studies 
>>>> Unit)","Biology and behavior series","Biology and environment 
>>>> (Macmillan Press)","Biology and management of old-growth
>>>> forests"],["1
>>>> result","1 result","1 result","1
>>>> result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 result","1 
>>>> result"],["http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014203","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006962","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90639795","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85100466","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97041787","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85276541","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82057525","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90605518","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001011448","
>>>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94028058"]]
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> I did see that, and it will work in a pinch. But the authority 
>>>>> file is pretty massive--almost 1GB-- and would be difficult to 
>>>>> handle in an automated way and without completely killing my web 
>>>>> app due to memory constraints while searching the file. Thanks,
>> though.
>>>>> Josh Welker
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Bryan Baldus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:39 PM
>>>>> To: Code for Libraries; Joshua Welker
>>>>> Subject: RE: LOC Subject Headings API
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:31 PM, Joshua Welker 
>>>>> [[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I am building an auto-suggest feature into our library's search 
>>>>>> box, and
>>>>> I am wanting to include LOC subject headings in my suggestions list.
>>>>> Does anyone know of any web service that allows for automated 
>>>>> harvesting of LOC Subject Headings? I am also looking for name
>>>> authorities, for that matter.
>>>>> Any format will be acceptable to me: RDF, XML, JSON, HTML, CSV...
>>>>> I have spent a while Googling with no luck, but this seems like 
>>>>> the sort of general-purpose thing that a lot of people would be 
>>>>> interested
>>> in.
>>>>> I feel like I must be missing something. Any help is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you seen http://id.loc.gov/ with bulk downloads in various 
>>>>> formats at http://id.loc.gov/download/
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bryan Baldus
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