Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]>: > Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC > geographic codes available at any persistent URL? Not sure how persistent, but here's Ross's version: http://marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/ I often made the point at MARBI meetings (before I just gave up going to them) that all of MARC (tags, subfields, codes) should be available in a machine-readable form.[1] I go NUTS when I see those email notices come around, the idea that all over the world people are manually keying in codes into a local table. Please help us make sure that does not happen in any future formats!!!! Make noise now! kc [1] The result was that a few meetings later LC announced that they had coded the MARC online pages in XML, and were generating the HTML from that. I think I was mis-understood. > > 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?) > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet