Great, Ralph, thanks. I think that the 'pre-coordinated' aspect of LCSH 
makes it very unwieldy for auto-suggest. FAST has some great untapped 
potential.

kc

On Thu Jun  6 08:00:25 2013, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> 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
>>>>>> Senior Cataloger
>>>>>> Quality Books Inc.
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>>>>>>
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