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....
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> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Summers
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> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
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> 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.
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> That was the bibliographic records which he purchased and donated to
> the Internet Archive:
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> http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net
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> They are also available via a torrent:
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> http://torrents.code4lib.org/
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> 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
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