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Yes, Kevin is correct.  MarcEdit does have this functionality, and a number
of controlled vocabularies from a number of national libraries are defined
as well.  MarcEdit automatically can reach out to pretty much any of the
services that are defined within the $2.


--tr

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> And since Terry just responded rather humbly, allow me to plug his
> MarcEdit:
>
> http://marcedit.reeset.net/adding-localcustom-linked-data-
> resolution-to-marcedits-linked-data-tool
>
> I was just looking into this reference as his email arrived.
>
> Anyways - take a look at MarcEdit.  I believe it is possible to match
> these labels with URIs and insert them into MARC records.  Terry, please
> correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Yours,
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On 8/25/17 11:56, Terry Reese wrote:
>
>> The $0 is the correct field, but you would not link to this value:
>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095334 not the HTML page.
>> The $0 and $1 are reserved for machine readable endpoints.  They should
>> *not* include links to HTML pages.
>>
>> --tr
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Kevin Ford
>> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:55 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Searching LC Name Authority file programmatically
>>
>> Yes, I believe it is $0, but if you insert a URI you do not include a
>> parenthetical notation.  See:
>> http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdcntf.html
>>
>> All that said, best check with a cataloger.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/25/17 11:37, Josh Welker 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>