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Hans BKK <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 Mar 2011 20:47:01 +0700
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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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