As of last update of the LOC authority files, 08-11-2008:
Name authority files total 7,161,713 records
Subject authority files total 339,144 records
http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/csb/index.html informs us American
citizens of
the quarterly updates for New Subjects, and Replacement Subjects. These
Subjects can all be then batch searched and retrieved in OCLC, but that is
convoluted, and doesnšt cover the Names, New or Replacements.
Do anyone know of a way of scraping the UPDATES (for both Names and
Subjects) for the LC authority files?
--
Yašaqov Ziso, eResources-Serials, Rowan University
856 256 4804 ziso_at_rowan.edu
On 9/29/08 5:01 PM, "Andrew Nagy" <andrew.nagy_at_VILLANOVA.EDU> wrote:
>> > Although note that these are only *subject* authorities.
>> >
>> > Andrew, I think you may also be looking for name authorities (since I
>> > assume this inquiry came from a suspiciously topically similar thread
>> > on vufind-tech).
>
> Yes - I would love to be able to obtain all authority files.
>
>> >
>> > Also, Ed's SKOS data lumps all of the subfields into one string
>> > literal, so:
>
> Yeah - the marc record has much more data than the rdf file. I haven't
> explored the indexing process of authority records in detail enough yet to
> determine if this string munging is a problem or not.
>
> Andrew
Received on Mon Sep 29 2008 - 15:46:13 EDT