Yes, the OAI records have OCLC numbers in them. btw, the set of data
that's included in those records is going to be expanded quite soon.
While they won't be 100% full records, I think you'll find them much
improved.
As Jonathan suggests, full records can be retrieved in a number of ways,
including the WorldCat API. To that end, we also make a set of
tab-delimited records for the entire contents of Hathi Trust (in
copyright as well as public domain) available. Those records are rich
in identifiers, but contain very limited bibliographic metadata. The
set is cumulated monthly, with daily update files provided between
cumulations. For more information, see the page Frances had referenced
previously at:
http://www.hathitrust.org/bibliographic_data_distribution
And finally, to answer Bernie's original question, the Auraria Library
in Denver( http://library.cudenver.edu/ ), for one, has loaded the full
public domain OAI set, including records for which they don't have local
print holdings.
Jon Rothman
University of Michigan
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Do the Michigan OAI records still have an OCLCnum in them, or has that
been removed too?
If they have an OCLC number, then an OCLC cataloging member could easily
use the WorldCat API to automatically fetch the actual full
straight-from-OCLC record for the item in question.
If they do not.... well, limiting access to good metadata hurts all of
our work.
Interestingly, if the records have an internal U of M accession number
but not an OCLCnumber, you could possibly use Bill Dueber's excellent
API to Merlyn (the U of M catalog) to first fetch an OCLCnum (if
available) for a given U of M bib id, then use WorldCat to fetch the
full record. A kind of crazy process to compensate for OCLC-enforced
access restrictions, but, we take what we can.
Jonathan
>>> Frances Dean McNamara <fdmcnama_at_UCHICAGO.EDU> 11/13/08 11:07 AM >>>
Yes. Michigan made available an OAI feed of MARC records for out of
copyright materials. The MARC records are dummed down, so authors lack
birth and death dates, subject headings lack subdivisions, corporate
headings only have subfield a ...
Options are described at:
http://www.hathitrust.org/bibliographic_data_distribution
MARC Edit has an OAI harvester that will pick them up. You can load to
your catalog, or you might want to use MARC Edit to edit them and then
load.
Frances McNamara
University of Chicago
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I saw this question on another list. Does anyone on NGC4LIB have any
helpful info?
"Some of our users think that they've seen where some
libraries/consortia have loaded records for Google Books that they don't
actually own, e.g., the Michigan records... either that or they've heard
from someone who's heard from someone that this has been done. All the
examples we've been pointed to turn out to be cases where the links to
Google are on records for owned print versions. Have any of you
acquired and loaded non-owned records for any of freely-available
digitized books - Google or otherwise? If so, how did you go about
getting the records. If not, do you know anyone who has?"
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN
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