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Of course there is always the version of the LC/NACO file we've had up for years at http://errol.oclc.org/ (e.g. http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n+90602202.html). People might also be interested in http://viaf.org which doesn't have the original authority records, but does have 'enhanced' versions. VIAF is going to change quite a bit over the next few months, but the expectation is that much of the information is going to be publicly available. --Th -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Houghton,Andrew Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:43 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data > > The NAF (Name/National Authority File) is still one important database > that we are missing any kind of good machine access to, I believe. Agreed. As part of our research project we have enhanced some of the vocabulary data in the service to provide mappings and links between vocabularies. One issue we noticed with FAST was that many of the mapped terms were not being linked. We tracked this back to the term being in NAF rather than in LCSH. So to make the FAST data more usable we would have to include the entire LC authority file, both names and subjects. It is something we are looking into at the moment... Andy.