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Also, I noticed another dump on the IA of Library of Congress updates since the initial "Bisson load". http://www.archive.org/details/marc_loc_updates In typical IA fashion, it's incredibly difficult to know what the hell this stuff is, though. -Ross. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> 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 >