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Can't you use: http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml ? It's what I used to make marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/ Although like Karen pointed out, not sure why you can't use the RDF/XML from id.loc.gov -Ross. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC > geographic codes available at any persistent URL? > > They're in HTML at http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_code.html . I > actually had a script that automatically downloaded from there and "scraped" > the HTML -- but sometime since I wrote the script, the HTML structure on the > page changed and it broke. > > (I kind of thought that was unlikely since that HTML page itself was machine > generated -- but I guess they changed the software that generated it. > Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which is > why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?) >