Not sure from the conversation if that file has what you need but if it does and if you tell me what you want out of 
that file I am happy to take a look and pass it back in some usable form if possible.  Would a delimited text file 
work?  I assume you could convert from there???

Jim

On 3/4/2011 7:47 AM, Hans BKK wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Larry E. Dixson<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> At the present time, the only MARC bulk download that is available (from LC) is through our Cataloging Distribution Service.
> Thanks for the additional info Larry, but this is a community/school
> project in a third-world country. CDS' pricing of this data is greater
> than our entire ILS implementation budget, and over a year's income
> for our average member! 8-)
>
> So I'm hoping someone will have suggestions on converting the freely
> available RDF-XML data to MARC records?
>
>> http://id.loc.gov/download/ seems to be the place for bulk downloading, but the formats offered don't include MARC!
>> Their preferred format seems to be RDF-XML.
>> Is there a plug-in or some other way to batch convert this data into MARC?
> On the other question, I went back and looked, and the mentions were
> recent enough that I guess this a "coming soon" feature - looking
> forward!
>
>> As a side issue, I came across some mentions that MarcEdit will allow for LCSH term lookups using OCLC's Terminology Service. I haven't found anything along these lines in MarcEdit nor at the web site - was that just an experiment that never made it into code?
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Larry E. Dixson<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Hans BKK wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to pre-load my ILS with the LoC Authority records for Subject
>>> headers before starting to catalog, for a more efficient workflow,
>>> compared to looking them up and downloading them one at a time.
>>>
>>> When doing the latter, http://authorities.loc.gov/ clearly states they
>>> are available as MARC records, but looks like only one at a time. Also
>>> here: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/
>>>
>>> http://id.loc.gov/download/ seems to be the place for bulk
>>> downloading, but the formats offered don't include MARC!
>>>
>>> Their preferred format seems to be RDF-XML.
>>>
>>> Is there a plug-in or some other way to batch convert this data into MARC?
>>>
>>> As a side issue, I came across some mentions that MarcEdit will allow
>>> for LCSH term lookups using OCLC's Terminology Service. I haven't
>>> found anything along these lines in MarcEdit nor at the web site - was
>>> that just an experiment that never made it into code?
>>>
>>> If none of the above pans out, any general suggestions on getting
>>> access to the LCSH authorities in Marc, if not in bulk then a quick
>>> way to get them one at a time:
>>
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>>    Standards Office, LA327
>> Library of Congress                Telephone: (202) 707-5807
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