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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