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Hi Dana, Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project Gutenberg's MARC files? See, e.g.: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28automatically_generated.29 Yours, Kevin -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Dana Pearson > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone > > I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I > would like to make these files available to any library that is > interested. > > I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if > that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking > that that may be now passé. > > I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two > versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is > not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided > by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some > of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. > > I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated > the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin > scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the > ebook folder. > > I would like to make access as easy as possible. > > Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the > links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but > not for everyone who's tried it. > > http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html > > thanks, > dana > > -- > Dana Pearson > dbpearsonmlis.com