On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The LCCN one does not work. Tries to take me to:
> http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n79021614.html
>
> Which results in an HTTP 500 error from the OCLC server.
>
> Since this template apparently generates a URL to an OCLC service (rather
> than LC? I guess maybe LC itself doesn't have the right permalinks?), I
> think that OCLC probably ought to fix this. If the template is not creating
> the right URL, I guess you've got to work with wikipedia to fix it. Or fix
> your end to accept those URLs properly.

As far as I know there aren't any permalinks for name authority
records at loc.gov that use the LCCN. I've heard informally from some
folks at OCLC that they plan to redirect these links to a URL at
loc.gov if/when the name authority records are available from there.
But I have no idea when that will happen unfortunately.

//Ed