Here's the set that I generated a while ago - it's quite big as it
covers the full Marc21 field and subfield set for bibliographic records.
I'm releasing these under the terms of our Talis Community License.
(http://www.talis.com/tdn/tcl)

Would people be interested in a write-up of how we've used
RadioactiveMarc and automated tests to validate Bath and US National
Profile compliance?

rob

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
> Binkley, Peter
> Sent: 08 February 2007 21:13
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Radioactive records for Solr
> 
> In hunting for data to help model subject faceting for MARC records,
> I've just been looking at Bill Moen's Zinterop report
>
(http://www.unt.edu/zinterop/ZInterop2/Documents/ZInterop2FinalReport_w
> e
> m4Dec2005.pdf). It occurs to me that with all our various projects
> working on indexing MARC records in Solr, we should set up and
> distribute a set of "radioactive records" to use in each project to
> diagnose and compare indexing and querying behaviour. Probably we
could
> just use the Zinterop records (which are described in detail in that
> pdf
> but aren't available for download anywhere I could find); but we might
> want to enhance them with data suitable for testing our faceting
> systems. Not sure what that would mean but I thought I'd throw it out.
> 
> If you were at Access '05, you heard Bill describe the Z39.50 testing
> he
> was doing with radioactive records: records with known unique values
in
> all indexed fields, that could be used for automated testing of Z39.50
> search functionality. The same approach might be very useful as we
feel
> our way towards a Solr MARC indexing system.
> 
> Has anyone already done something like this?
> 
> Peter
> 
> Peter Binkley
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