Alexander Johannesen writes

> So in order to test the integrity and performance of my system so far I'm
> wondering if there's a suitable open dataset of bibliographic records that
> aren't too obscure (meaning, I can find the titles at amazon or Open
> Library) that you could recommend? More than 1000 records, but less than a
> million, maybe?

  Look at RePEc at http://repec.org.
 
  You can mirror the dataset from ftp://repec.org but for efficiency
  we can set up some rsync delivery for you.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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