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It can be found at http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF, N-triples, and JSON. Tom On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Stephen Hearn <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines URLs > for each of the MARC geographic area codes. > > Stephen > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC > > geographic codes available at any persistent URL? > > > > They're in HTML at http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_code.html . I > > actually had a script that automatically downloaded from there and > "scraped" > > the HTML -- but sometime since I wrote the script, the HTML structure on > the > > page changed and it broke. > > > > (I kind of thought that was unlikely since that HTML page itself was > machine > > generated -- but I guess they changed the software that generated it. > > Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which > is > > why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?) > > > > > > -- > Stephen Hearn, Metadata Strategist > Technical Services, University Libraries > University of Minnesota > 160 Wilson Library > 309 19th Avenue South > Minneapolis, MN 55455 > Ph: 612-625-2328 > Fx: 612-625-3428 >