Re: [VuFind-General] LCSH information in RDF/XML

[Lovins, D. <dan...@ya...>]

I'm very interested in this as well. And I would happily contribute to such an effort. Alas, I am not a programmer (though I'm learning 'C' slowly). I do have some background in authority control, though, so if I can find a way to lend a hand, I certainly will.

/ Daniel

From: Andrew Nagy [mailto:as...@gm...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:01 PM
To: Sandford, Mark
Cc: vuf...@li...
Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] LCSH information in RDF/XML

Mark - I'd love to see some development with authority data in VuFind.  Unfortunately - I don't have the time to focus on the authority issue.  I have too many other bugs/important issues that need to be focused on.

Anyone want to take on authority control development work?  I agree that a heirarchical view of subject heading would be really great.  I would also love to see authority control on author data as well.

Andrew
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Sandford, Mark <SAN...@wp...<mailto:SAN...@wp...>> wrote:

So the Library of Congress has made the full LCSH thesaurus available in RDF/XML carrying SKOS data, and JSON (I won't pretend to know much about any of those formats).  It's a web service, but the full thesaurus can be downloaded as well.   It used to be at lcsh.info<http://lcsh.info>, but it's now at http://id.loc.gov