On Fri, 9 May 2008, Bess Sadler wrote:
> Those of us involved in the Blacklight and VuFind projects are
> spending lots of time recently thinking about marc records indexing.
> We're about to start running some performance tests, and we want to
> create unit tests for our marc to solr indexer, and also people
> wanting to download and play with the software need to have easy
> access to a small but representative set of marc records that they
> can play with.
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> It seems to me that the set that Casey donated to Open Library
> (http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net) would be a
> good place from which to draw records, because although IANAL, this
> seems to sidestep any legal hurdles. I'd also love to see the ability
> for the community to contribute test cases. Assuming such a set
> doesn't exist already (see my question below) this seems like the
> ideal sort of project for code4lib to host, too.
OpenLibrary has other datasets that you might be able to use / combine /
whatever to meet your requirements:
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/data
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Joe Hourcle
