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On 6/22/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > Can't you use: > http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml > ? > It's what I used to make marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/ Yes, I can! I didn't know about/hadn't found that one either hadn't been mentioned until now. Thanks! Where did you find that? That's potentially an even more convenient format for my use case than the RDF version. > Although like Karen pointed out, not sure why you can't use the > RDF/XML from id.loc.gov > > -Ross. > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:44 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?) >>