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If anyone from HathiTrust is watching this thread, I'd also be curious if they're considering bulk record downloads via something other than OAI [1]. Thanks. Daniel [1] http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project-oai-harvesting -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:12 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Doh! I read all the emails in the thread except for Eric's, which asked the same question. Either way, his or mine, nevertheless curious. Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Eric Phetteplace > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:57 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to > anyone > > Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on > your site somewhere, served with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" > header so they trigger a download when accessed? E.g. here's a > StackOverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195304/how-to-use- > content-disposition-for-force-a-file-to-download-to-the-hard- > drive>thread > on that. If they must be a recognized MIME type, you could compress > them as .zip or .tar.gz files on the server, which would reduce > download time either way. > > I did try clicking the links on your site and they never downloaded, > the request just timed out. > > Not to discredit what you're doing, which is great, but aren't MARC > records already available for Project Gutenberg? See their offline > catalogs<http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC > _ > Records_.28offsite.29>page. > > Best, > Eric Phetteplace > Emerging Technologies Librarian > Chesapeake College > Wye Mills, MD > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Dana Pearson > <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > 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 > >