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Suggestions API

Help end users find materials more easily with automatic suggestions for alternate and preferred vocabulary and search terms.

  • Status: Production
  • Sandbox access: No

What You Get

The Suggestions API allows you to automatically suggest alternate and preferred vocabulary and search terms in end user searches:

  • Get a list of alternate terms within a given controlled vocabulary
  • Get a list of preferred terms within a given controlled vocabulary
  • Get a list of search term suggestions based on a partial word string

This API is part of the WorldCat Discovery Premium API package that allows you to build and customize a full-featured discovery layer, enrich the discovery of collections on your website, and extend discovery to other websites, systems, and devices. Other APIs included in this package:

Who Can Use It

  • Libraries that maintain a WorldCat Discovery Premium subscription
  • Libraries that maintain a WorldShare Management Services (WMS) subscription