Comments on: Controlled Terms or Free Terms? A JavaScript Library to Utilize Subject Headings and Thesauri on the Web

By: Change or be irrelevant @ CommonPlace.Net

Change or be irrelevant @ CommonPlace.Net — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:02:19 +0000

[...] and information literacy must support each other” and Shun Nagaya and Keizo Itabashi – “Covo.js : A JavaScript Library to Utilize Subject Headings and Thesauri on the Web”. This doesn’t mean that the other talks were bad, I just didn’t manage to talk to people [...]

By: Shun Nagaya(author)

Shun Nagaya(author) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:42:55 +0000

Hi Jonathan Rochkind,

Thank you for your comments and question !

We hope all data providers provide JSONP form or CORS.
Covo.js (ver 0.1) is supporting Web NDL Authorities, and this service provided JSONP data. These detail are described at “Pattern 1: Web-API with JSONP”.

By: Shun Nagaya(author)

Shun Nagaya(author) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:39:40 +0000

Hi diego ferreyra,

Thank you for your comments !

I think TemaTres is very cool project about controlled vocaburary. Mr. Hayashi (author) wrote news-report about TemaTres published in Current Awareness Portal ( http://current.ndl.go.jp/node/18780 ). Please try covo.js, if you possible !

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:54:51 +0000

This seems useful not just for assigning vocab, but for suggesting search terms to searchers, from controlled vocab, in a database that uses it.

I wish more providers of vocab would provide it in a jsonp form, so a proxy server was not neccesary. Your JS code seems to be using proxy server for everything; have you found any controlled vocabs whose maintainers provide jsonp access in the first place, allowing cross-domain jsonp access from javascript?

By: diego ferreyra

diego ferreyra — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:35:54 +0000

Very nice work!! I will try to develop interface from Tematres vocabulary server. There are more than 100 vocabularies on tematres. I do some test with jquery autocomplete… (http://vocabularyserver.com/tools/autocomplete/) buy I think your script is more configurable and elegant.