OK, thanks for answering Terry. In the meantime someone contacted me
off-list offering to send me batches of authority records in MARCXML
format. Apparently they've got pretty good QC procedures, so I'm
hoping they'll be pretty clean - although obviously a certain
percentage will be obsolete.
Can anyone tell me how to tell the difference between say Subject
Heading records as opposed to Form/Genre ones, or Geography vs Names?
They all look the same, except for the presence of certain fields and
absences of others, there doesn't seem to be a tag that says "This is
an X type of authority record"??
By the way, I'm sure once your tool is shipping, there will be
requests to allow authority MARC downloads, at least manually.
Since OCLC and LoC are making money selling this data, I can
understand that allowing bulk downloads may be a sensitive area. What
about a "specified batch" process where the user provides a simple
text list of terms, and your tool batch downloads the authority
records with exact matches, outputting a list of "didn't match" for
them to then correct and download manually.
Just an idea. . .
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Reese, Terry
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> This question about converting the LC rdf data to Marc has come up before. Yes, you could do it, no it won't be useful because the dataset won't look anything like the Marc records.
>
> In terms of the OCLC service, this likely wouldn't solve your problem either. This is a tool being build to provide subject/names validation, not to retrieve Marc records.
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