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Terminology Services

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AskREF: Search QuestionPoint Knowledgebase

This application allows users to search the QuestionPoint Knowledge Base by keyword and retrieves questions which contain that keyword. A user can then view the answer to a particular question or see related terms retrieved from the Terminology Services Web service Library of Congress Subject Headings Vocabulary based on the keyword submitted.

Jason Clark, Montana State University Library
Digital Library Program

A prototype using the experimental OCLC Terminologies Service for the Digital Library Program's collections. A query is expanded and broader, and related terms are suggested.

Michael Durbin, Indiana University
Extending Online Museum Collections

Using museum data exchange formats and Yahoo Pipes, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is prototyping online collection entries that include bibliographic data via the WorldCat Search API, books by and about artists using WorldCat Identities, and extended search terms from the OCLC Terminologies Service

Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keyword Suggester on Drupal

Created during the WorldCat Hackathon 2008 in New York, this application seeks new ways of enhancing the quality of folksonomic tags by offering users suggestions from controlled vocabularies like MESH.

Chad Fennell, University of Minnesota
MARCEdit

MARCEdit uses two different OCLC web services: Classify and Terminology Services. The program uses the Classify web services to batch create classify a set of records. In addition, when users create a single record they can use the Terminology Services to find an appropriate authorized terms to assign to that record.

Terry Reese, Oregon State University Library
Term Finder

This application allows you to enter a term and search Library of Congress Subject Headings for broader and narrower terms using OCLC Terminology Services

Eric Lease Morgan, Notre Dame
VuFind Reccomender Module

This add-on for VuFind adds functionality which reccomends Names based on name searches and possible Terms based on subject searches. The name reccomendation feature is powered by WorldCat Identities which provides related authors as well as subject headings which are associated with that author. The subject reccomendation feature is powered by Terminology Services which provides broader and narrower subjects as well as related subjects.

Demian Katz, Villanova University

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