Actually, "member" is more appropriate, and it is not presently behind any
sort of wall in its current experimental mode, but it could become part of
the WorldCat Grid Services which are free to the folks listed here:

http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/SearchAPIWhoCanUse

With other audience groups yet to be determined (could still be free for
some groups/purposes, we don't know yet).

Actually distributing the data is another issue, since in most cases it is
not ours. 
Roy 


On 9/30/08 9/30/08 € 12:23 PM, "Ross Singer" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> s/customer/"partner"/
> 
> Also, in the case of what the thread was initially calling for, what
> would be the legalities of redistributing this data?
> 
> -Ross.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you need to be an OCLC
>> customer to benefit from this?
>> 
>> -Ross.
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Houghton,Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>>> Ross Singer
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:45 PM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> If you just looking for access to the LCSH authority data, you can access it
>>> through our Terminology Services project.  The data in our SRW server was
>>> updated to the 2008-09-17 weekly update from LC.  The SRW server is located
>>> at the URI:
>>> 
>>> <http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/>
>>> 
>>> Looking for access to other authority files:
>>> 
>>> FAST            <http://tspilot.oclc.org/fast/>
>>> GSAFD           <http://tspilot.oclc.org/gsafd/>
>>> MeSH            <http://tspilot.oclc.org/mesh/>
>>> TGM I           <http://tspilot.oclc.org/lctgm/>
>>> TGM II  <http://tspilot.oclc.org/gmgpc/>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Andy.
>>> 
>> 
> 

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