Re: Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

From: Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:05:02 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Winona Salesky
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:00 AM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web
> service
>
> Quoting Ethan Gruber <ewg4xuva_at_GMAIL.COM>:
> 
> > 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.
Received on Mon Dec 07 2009 - 11:07:23 EST