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Roy Tennant, corollary to the question below: can OCLC provide a service its members with a list of 010 for the NAME authority records for each specific weekly update? This is a simple grep from the NAF weekly update, not infringing any copy rights. You are not distributing any data, just pointers to it, a simple notification service. We, OCLC members can take it from there, -- Yašaqov Ziso, eResources, Rowan University On 10/1/08 9:21 AM, "Andrew Nagy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If only we knew someone who worked in the LOC that we could tell this > information to.... > ________________________________________ > > > > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Summers > [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data > > 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