Authors in OL have already been linked to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia has 
been linked to VIAF, and the OCLC number, when present, has been taken 
from the MARC record. Therefore the OL record in some cases already has 
these connections.

kc


On 8/18/14, 8:21 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote:
> 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
>>

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