John Hostage at Harvard could probably tell you the person to contact
John Hostage [hostage_at_law.harvard.edu]
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Andrew Nagy
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
If only we knew someone who worked in the LOC that we could tell this
information to....
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From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed
Summers [ehs_at_POBOX.COM]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu>
wrote:
> I thought I remembered something about Casey Bisson doing exactly that
with
> a grant/award he received? I forget what happened to it. A snapshot
would
> just be a snapshot of course, it wouldn't include records created or
> modified after the snapshot.
That was the bibliographic records which he purchased and donated to
the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net
They are also available via a torrent:
http://torrents.code4lib.org/
It definitely would be nice to do the same thing for the authority
data. It's kind of absurd to me that this data isn't already in the
public domain, since it's uh in the public domain. But what do I know,
I'm not a lawyer.
//Ed
Received on Thu Oct 02 2008 - 16:05:11 EDT