I think what I'm looking for is a crowd-sourcing platform to add:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
http://viaf.org/viaf/182113193/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_%C3%81ntonia
http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-antonia/oclc/809034

...

to

https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_marc.xml 


cheers
stuart


On 19/08/14 11:57, Karen Coyle wrote:
> About 1/3 of the 1M ebooks on OpenLibrary.org have full MARC records,
> and you can retrieve the record via the API. There is also a "secret"
> record format that returns not the full MARC for the hard copy (which is
> what the records represent because these are digitized books) but a
> record that has been modified to represent the ebook.
>
> The MARC records for the hard copy follow the pattern:
>
> https://archive.org/download/[archive identifier]/[archive
> identifier]_marc.[xml|mrc]
>
> Download MARC XML
> https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_marc.xml
>
> Download MARC binary
> https://www.archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_meta.mrc
> <https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_meta.mrc>
>
>
>
> To get the one that represents the ebook, do:
>
> https://archive.org/download/[archive identifier]/[archive
> identifier]_archive_marc.xml
>
> https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_archive_marc.xml
>
>
> This one has an 007, the 245 $h, and a few other things.
>
> Tom Morris did some code that helps you search for books by author and
> title and retrieve a MARC record. I don't recall where his github
> archive is, but I'll find out and post it here. The code is open source.
> We used it for a project that added ebook records to a public library
> catalog.
>
> You can also use the OPenLibrary API to select all open access ebooks.
> What I'd like to see is a way to create a list or bibliography in OL
> that then is imported into a program that will find MARC records for
> those books. The list function is still under development, though.
>
> kc
>
> On 8/18/14, 3:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote:
>> There are a stack of great free ebook repositories available on the
>> web, things like https://unglue.it/ http://www.gutenberg.org/
>> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.net.au/
>> https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any etc, etc
>>
>> What there doesn't appear to be, is high-quality AACR2 / RDA records
>> available for these. There are things like
>> https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/pg/ which are elaborate dublin
>> core to MARC converters, but these lack standardisation of names,
>> authority control (people, entities, places, etc), interlinking, etc.
>>
>> It seems to me that quality metadata would greatly increase the value
>> / findability / use of these projects and thus their visibility and
>> available sources.
>>
>> Are there any projects working in this space already? Are there
>> suitable tools available?
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>