Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on your
site somewhere, served with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header so
they trigger a download when accessed? E.g. here's a
StackOverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195304/how-to-use-content-disposition-for-force-a-file-to-download-to-the-hard-drive>thread
on that. If they must be a recognized MIME type, you could compress
them as .zip or .tar.gz files on the server, which would reduce download
time either way.

I did try clicking the links on your site and they never downloaded, the
request just timed out.

Not to discredit what you're doing, which is great, but aren't MARC records
already available for Project Gutenberg? See their offline
catalogs<http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28offsite.29>page.

Best,
Eric Phetteplace
Emerging Technologies Librarian
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, MD


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Dana Pearson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would
> like to make these files available to any library that is interested.
>
> I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if
> that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that
> that may be now passé.
>
> I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two
> versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not
> a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by
> setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of
> those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage..
>
> I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the
> ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts
> such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder.
>
> I would like to make access as easy as possible.
>
> Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the
> links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not
> for everyone who's tried it.
>
> http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html
>
> thanks,
> dana
>
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