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As of last update of the LOC authority files, 08-11-2008: Name authority files total 7,161,713 records Subject authority files total 339,144 records http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/csb/index.html informs us American citizens of the quarterly updates for New Subjects, and Replacement Subjects. These Subjects can all be then batch searched and retrieved in OCLC, but that is convoluted, and doesnšt cover the Names, New or Replacements. Do anyone know of a way of scraping the UPDATES (for both Names and Subjects) for the LC authority files? -- Yašaqov Ziso, eResources-Serials, Rowan University 856 256 4804 [log in to unmask] On 9/29/08 5:01 PM, "Andrew Nagy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > Although note that these are only *subject* authorities. >> > >> > Andrew, I think you may also be looking for name authorities (since I >> > assume this inquiry came from a suspiciously topically similar thread >> > on vufind-tech). > > Yes - I would love to be able to obtain all authority files. > >> > >> > Also, Ed's SKOS data lumps all of the subfields into one string >> > literal, so: > > Yeah - the marc record has much more data than the rdf file. I haven't > explored the indexing process of authority records in detail enough yet to > determine if this string munging is a problem or not. > > Andrew