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I think what I'm looking for is a crowd-sourcing platform to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather http://viaf.org/viaf/182113193/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_%C3%81ntonia http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-antonia/oclc/809034 ... to https://archive.org/download/myantonia00cathrich/myantonia00cathrich_marc.xml cheers stuart On 19/08/14 11:57, Karen Coyle wrote: > 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 >