Thanks Ed.
I have let Internet Archives know, but haven't heard back from them yet so
I thought I'd ask here while waiting (yes, I'm impatient).

Good thought about the OCLC Metadata API. The OCLC records don't
necessarily have the IA access url, but that could be added easily enough
(though I'm hoping I don't have to go that route...). At least it gives me
options, always nice.


On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 4:00 AM Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It looks like those IA items lack a MARC record, but have an XML metadata
> record? For example:
>
>
> https://ia800703.us.archive.org/32/items/worksstephenoli00churgoog/worksstephenoli00churgoog_meta.xml
>
> If the OCLC number is reliably present maybe it would be possible to use
> it to look up a record using the OCLC Metadata API?
>
> https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-metadata-api.en.html
>
> There might be a way to batch download in MarcEdit, or the process could
> (in theory) be scripted fairly easily using their REST API?
>
>
> https://developer.api.oclc.org/wc-metadata#/Bibliographic%20Records/read-bib
>
> I think it would be worth letting IA know about the situation using the
> email address in that Google Doc. It seems like this is a situation they
> would be interested in resolving since their instructions seem to be
> lacking.
>
> Good luck!
>
> //Ed
>