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About 1/3 of the 1M ebooks on OpenLibrary.org have full MARC records, and you can retrieve the record via the API. There is also a "secret" record format that returns not the full MARC for the hard copy (which is what the records represent because these are digitized books) but a record that has been modified to represent the ebook. The MARC records for the hard copy follow the pattern: https://archive.org/download/[archive identifier]/[archive identifier]_marc.[xml|mrc] Download MARC XML https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_marc.xml Download MARC binary https://www.archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_meta.mrc <https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_meta.mrc> To get the one that represents the ebook, do: https://archive.org/download/[archive identifier]/[archive identifier]_archive_marc.xml https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_archive_marc.xml This one has an 007, the 245 $h, and a few other things. Tom Morris did some code that helps you search for books by author and title and retrieve a MARC record. I don't recall where his github archive is, but I'll find out and post it here. The code is open source. We used it for a project that added ebook records to a public library catalog. You can also use the OPenLibrary API to select all open access ebooks. What I'd like to see is a way to create a list or bibliography in OL that then is imported into a program that will find MARC records for those books. The list function is still under development, though. kc On 8/18/14, 3:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: > There are a stack of great free ebook repositories available on the > web, things like https://unglue.it/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ > https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any etc, etc > > What there doesn't appear to be, is high-quality AACR2 / RDA records > available for these. There are things like > https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/pg/ which are elaborate dublin > core to MARC converters, but these lack standardisation of names, > authority control (people, entities, places, etc), interlinking, etc. > > It seems to me that quality metadata would greatly increase the value > / findability / use of these projects and thus their visibility and > available sources. > > Are there any projects working in this space already? Are there > suitable tools available? > > cheers > stuart -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600