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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:07:51 -0400, "Dempsey,Lorcan" <[log in to unmask]> said: > The Library of Congress Name Authority File is available for human and > machine interaction (the latter as a web service as you suggest). Cool! And I see you have a persistant uri associated with each file. > We have a demonstrator working internally where we use it to provide a > name lookup service from within a local instance of Dspace. DSpace, BTW, really needs to support MODS. Research tools without good bib metadata (and ultimately a way to integrate that into document creation) aren't very useful for this researcher ;-) > One could imagine a variety of ways of capturing a string for sending to > the web service. Yes, a web browser bookmarklet is one. Another is specific to OS X: services. Bruce