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Dear Dana, Thanks for the detail. Based on the few example comparisons I've seen, I very much like your MARC records more. Not only are they richer, they break up the data better. Yours, Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Dana Pearson > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:20 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone > > Kevin, Eric > > 7zip worked fine to unzip and records look pretty good since they used > 653 and preserved the string from the metadata element with the hypens. > However the records do not do subfield "d" in 100 or 700 fields and > thus such content appears in the 245$c. 245$a seems to go missing with > some frequency. MarcEdit does not report any errors though. > > My original intent was just to keep my XSLT skills sharp while I had > some free time last August. After creating the stylesheet, I then had > no free time until January when I could devote 2 or 3 hours to the post > transform editing. Thought I'd just dive in but the pool was much > deeper than I had anticipated. > > Do think libraries will prefer my edited versions although different in > non-access points as well. Incidentally, not many additions since my > harvest. > > First record in the Project Gutenberg produced records: > > =LDR 00721cam a22002293a 4500 > =001 27384 > =003 PGUSA > =008 081202s2008||||xxu|||||s|||||000\|\eng\d > =040 \\$aPGUSA$beng > =042 \\$adc > =050 \4$aPQ > =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 > =245 10$a$h[electronic resource] /$cby Alexandre, 1802-1870 Dumas > =260 \\$bProject Gutenberg,$c2008 > =500 \\$aProject Gutenberg > =506 \\$aFreely available. > =516 \\$aElectronic text > =653 \0$aFrance -- History -- Regency, 1715-1723 -- Fiction > =653 \0$aOrléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723 -- Fiction > =830 \0$aProject Gutenberg$v27384 > =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27384 > =856 42$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license$3Rights > > couldn't readily find the above item but here's an example of my > records by the same author. > > =LDR 01002nam a22002535 4500 > =001 PG18997 > =006 m||||||||d|||||||| > =007 cr||n\|||muaua > =008 \\\\\\s2006\\\\utu|||||o|||||||||||eng\d > =042 \\$adc > =090 \\$aPQ > =092 \0$aeBooks > =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre,$d1802-1870. > =245 14$aThe Vicomte de Bragelonne$h[electronic resource] :$bOr Ten > Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty > Years After" /$Alexandre Dumas. > =260 \\$aSalt Lake City :$bProject Gutenberg Literary Archive > Foundation,$c2006. > =300 \\$a1 online resource :$bmultiple file formats. > =500 \\$aRecords generated from Project Gutenberg RDF data. > =540 \\$aApplicable license:$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license > =650 \0$aAdventure stories. > =650 \0$aHistorical fiction. > =651 \0$aFrance$vHistory$yLouis XIV, 1643-1715$vFiction. > =655 \0$aElectronic books. > =710 2\$aProject Gutenberg. > =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18997$zClick to access. > > thanks for your interest.. > > regards, > dana > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ford, Kevin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Dana Pearson > dbpearsonmlis.com