[Yulcat-l] Ajax-powered LCSH search tool

[Manon Theroux]

Oops ... I meant Rebekah, not Rebecca, of course! Mea culpa...

-Manon

At 11:58 AM 11/15/2006, Manon Theroux wrote:
>Thanks for passing along the link, Rebecca. I 
>hadn't seen this. I took a brief look the other 
>day and tried to go back for a longer look today 
>but I'm getting an error message :(
>
>I have played around a little bit with an OCLC 
>site that might be similar for names (not sure 
>whether it is Ajax-powered as well): 
>http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/authority/
>
>The name site doesn't seem to be kept up-to-date 
>(I wonder if the same holds true for the LCSH 
>site). Example: I looked up Richard Nixon, who 
>got a death date added to his heading back in 
>February, but the site still has the old heading 
>(without the death date). And new headings, 
>added to the authority file earlier this year, 
>are not there. It's also hard to interpret the 
>fixed fields in the 008 string unless you have 
>the positions memorized. Not that crucial for 
>personal names, but much more crucial for 
>subjects (e.g., to see if you can subdivide the 
>heading geographically or not) so I wonder if 
>the LCSH site works the same way.
>
>Of course, the name site is only a research 
>project - I wouldn't use it for production work. 
>But it's good to play with and think about!
>
>-Manon
>
>
>At 02:13 PM 11/9/2006, Rebekah Irwin wrote:
>>I recently stumbled upon this interesting Ajax 
>>(a programming language for creating 
>>interactive web-pages) powered search tool for LSCH created by OCLC:
>>
>>http://lcsh.orhost.org/
>>
>>I would be interested to hear if anyone has been experimenting with it...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Rebekah Irwin
>>Catalog Librarian for Digital Projects
>>Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
>>Yale University
>>PO Box 208240
>>New Haven, CT 06520
>>e: rebekah.irwin at yale.edu
>>p: 203.436.4692
>>f: 203.432.4047
>>www: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/
>
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