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You can get anything you want At Brewster Kahle's restaurant. http://openlibrary.org/data#bulk_download Simon On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, LeVan,Ralph <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc > records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch system that OCLC > released as open source. They date back to 2002 and will not contain > any Unicode, if you were hoping to include that as part of your testing. > > Ralph > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Alexander Johannesen > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:36 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Open datasets > > Hiya, > > I'm in the middle of creating a meta data management system (including > merging and persistent identifier management) for a somewhat different > domain (intranets and business integration), but it's based on Topic > Maps > and so is well suited to other means of meta data handling / mangling. > It's > also going to be open-source, and it might be well-suited to library > tasks > as well. > > 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? > > Regards, > > Alex >