Josh,

Depending on your planned workflow, we've had better results  for
programmatic authorization using the VIAF API (
https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/viaf.en.html) - and
storing its LCNAF identifier after sifting through the results - than using
the native id.loc.gov API.

Regards,
--Alex

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Related question: I want to store linked data URI references in my MARC
> records. If I want to store the URI to an LC Name Authority entry such as
> this one (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010056162.html), what is
> the best way to do that? My guess would be to store it in a 100 control
> subfield 0, but I am not sure how to format it. Would it be something like
> this?
>
> (lcname)http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010056162.html
>
> I'm guessing there is some technical acronym I should use instead of
> "lcname."
>
> Joshua Welker
> Information Technology Librarian
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> JCKL 2260
> 660.543.8022
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > That's exactly what I needed. Thanks, Kevin!
> >
> > Joshua Welker
> > Information Technology Librarian
> > James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> > University of Central Missouri
> > Warrensburg, MO 64093
> > JCKL 2260
> > 660.543.8022 <(660)%20543-8022>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> There's no reason to screen scrape the results.
> >>
> >> The label service permits the use of the "Accept" header.  For example:
> >>
> >> curl -i -L -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml"
> >> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/label/orchids
> >>
> >> Take note of the initial set of response headers:
> >>
> >> HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
> >> Location: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095334
> >> X-URI: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095334
> >> X-PrefLabel: Orchids
> >> Cache-Control: public, max-age=1209600
> >> Content-Length: 0
> >> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:41:00 GMT
> >> Server: Apache
> >> X-Varnish: 95467183 53781367
> >> Age: 2343793
> >> Via: 1.1 varnish-v4
> >> X-Cache: HIT
> >> X-Cache-Hits: 24
> >> Connection: keep-alive
> >>
> >> If you want, you could perform only a HEAD request on the label service
> >> and then use the X-URI and X-PrefLabel headers to gather the info you
> >> need.  NB: The service works on an exact match, more or less; take off
> the
> >> 's' of 'orchids' and you'll get an entirely different result.
> >>
> >> You can also operate on the search results - not the label service -
> >> programatically.  See "Supported Search serialization formats" here:
> >> http://id.loc.gov/techcenter/serializations.html   One XML-based option
> >> and a JSON one too.
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/25/17 10:39, Josh Welker wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Nathan. That looks like it will work if I do it manually, but
> >>> there
> >>> is no interface for doing it programmatically. Is LC okay with me
> screen
> >>> scraping the search results?
> >>>
> >>> Joshua Welker
> >>> Information Technology Librarian
> >>> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> >>> University of Central Missouri
> >>> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> >>> JCKL 2260
> >>> 660.543.8022
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Trail, Nate <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You can try our "label" service. See under "known label retrieval"
> here:
> >>>> http://id.loc.gov/techcenter/searching.html
> >>>> I would be glad to help further.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks, Nate
> >>>>
> >>>> -----------------------------------------
> >>>> Nate Trail
> >>>> Network Development & MARC Standards Office
> >>>> LS/ABA/NDMSO
> >>>> LA308, Mail Stop 4402
> >>>> Library of Congress
> >>>> Washington DC 20540
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> >>>> Josh Welker
> >>>> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:12 AM
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Searching LC Name Authority file programmatically
> >>>>
> >>>> I have sort of inherited authority control recently at my library,
> and I
> >>>> want to find some way to automate some common workflows. I am looking
> >>>> for
> >>>> an easy way to query blind name references against the LC Name
> Authority
> >>>> master file. There is no API for searching it on the web, and the name
> >>>> file
> >>>> itself is 10+ GB and hard to work with.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are options as I see them:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     - Screen scrape the search engine at id.loc.gov.
> >>>>     - Load the 10+ GB name file into a local database to query
> >>>>     programmatically.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does anyone have experience with either method? Does some other method
> >>>> exist I am not aware of?
> >>>>
> >>>> Joshua Welker
> >>>> Information Technology Librarian
> >>>> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> >>>> University of Central Missouri
> >>>> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> >>>> JCKL 2260
> >>>> 660.543.8022
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
>