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
>