Advanced TypeAhead
Powered by the VIAF API, this advanced typeahead provides categorized suggestions to complete a user's search string. Use it with any HTML text input box. Created at Developer House, December 2014.Leverage library authorities to help your users search more accurately for the people, places and things they actually want to find. The sample application suggests authority keywords from the VIAF API using a jQuery auto-complete plugin. Searches using those keywords against Worldcat - via the WorldCat Discovery API - generate a result cloud for the user.
See the related News post to read more about the creation of the application and to see a video demonstration.
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OCLC Developer House
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Apache 2.0
Submitted on
March 10, 2015