Alexander Johannesen writes > So in order to test the integrity and performance of my system so far I'm > wondering if there's a suitable open dataset of bibliographic records that > aren't too obscure (meaning, I can find the titles at amazon or Open > Library) that you could recommend? More than 1000 records, but less than a > million, maybe? Look at RePEc at http://repec.org. You can mirror the dataset from ftp://repec.org but for efficiency we can set up some rsync delivery for you. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel