Thank you so much for the offer - I'm working with Harvard's now, and I think I should probably get on to the analysis and write up.
Thanks everyone!
Christina
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Mark Sandford
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?
Christina,
I can grab a random 1000 descriptions/summaries from our catalog records easily enough and send them to you. I assume you're looking for data in the MARC 520 field. Do you need additional info (title, author, etc?).
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Mark Sandford
Systems Librarian
Assistant Professor in the Libraries
Colgate University Libraries
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Pikas, Christina K. < Christina.Pikas_at_jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Current bibliometrics project is in a humanities/social sciences area
> (not typically my specialty). I'm looking for book descriptions for
> maybe ~1000 books. Even if I could automate filling in a few more of
> these, I would be happy. I could scrape a catalog page, but that might
> be frowned upon. I could also download the free MARC files from LoC, but that's way too much.
> We (JHA) don't maintain a cataloging subscription to WorldCat (JHE -
> our parent org, I'm sure must). OpenLibrary appears to not have descriptions.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Christina
>
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> Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS, PhD
> Librarian
> The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
> Baltimore: 443.778.4812
> D.C.: 240.228.4812
> Christina.Pikas_at_jhuapl.edu
>
Received on Thu May 17 2018 - 08:52:24 EDT