Re: source of marc geographic code?

From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:42:39 +0000
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> It can be found at
> http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html

> Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF, N-triples,
> and JSON.
 
Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are lists of URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of RDF-triples, but where two parts of each triple is identical in every triple just saying "this URL is part of the marc geographic vocabulary", and then each triple has a unique URL representing a code). 

And I'd need to do a seperate HTTP request for each code ( a couple hundred?) to actually get the label(s). 

Am I missing something? That's not a very convenient way to get the data for the very common use case of wanting to construct a mapping from code to label, right? Or that's just me?
Received on Wed Jun 22 2011 - 21:44:37 EDT