Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
Roy Tennant, corollary to the question below: can OCLC provide a service its members with a list of 010 for the NAME authority records for each specific weekly update? This is a simple grep from the NAF weekly update, not infringing any copy rights. You are not distributing any data, just pointers to it, a simple notification service. We, OCLC members can take it from there, -- Ya¹aqov Ziso, eResources, Rowan University On 10/1/08 9:21 AM, Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only we knew someone who worked in the LOC that we could tell this information to From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I remembered something about Casey Bisson doing exactly that with a grant/award he received? I forget what happened to it. A snapshot would just be a snapshot of course, it wouldn't include records created or modified after the snapshot. That was the bibliographic records which he purchased and donated to the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net They are also available via a torrent: http://torrents.code4lib.org/ It definitely would be nice to do the same thing for the authority data. It's kind of absurd to me that this data isn't already in the public domain, since it's uh in the public domain. But what do I know, I'm not a lawyer. //Ed
Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
Andrew Houghton, kindly explain: 1. LC names/subjects authority files, current with 2008-09-17, are available on your SRW server http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/ for us (a consortium) to harvest and load on our server for our consortial authority maintenance? 2. Weekly updates to these files to these name/subject files are also available on that SRW server? -- Ya¹aqov On 9/30/08 3:01 PM, Houghton,Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data Also, I noticed another dump on the IA of Library of Congress updates since the initial Bisson load. http://www.archive.org/details/marc_loc_updates In typical IA fashion, it's incredibly difficult to know what the hell this stuff is, though. -Ross. If you just looking for access to the LCSH authority data, you can access it through our Terminology Services project. The data in our SRW server was updated to the 2008-09-17 weekly update from LC. The SRW server is located at the URI: http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/ Looking for access to other authority files: FAST http://tspilot.oclc.org/fast/ GSAFD http://tspilot.oclc.org/gsafd/ MeSH http://tspilot.oclc.org/mesh/ TGM I http://tspilot.oclc.org/lctgm/ TGM II http://tspilot.oclc.org/gmgpc/ Andy.
Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data
The NAF (Name/National Authority File) is still one important database that we are missing any kind of good machine access to, I believe. Agreed. As part of our research project we have enhanced some of the vocabulary data in the service to provide mappings and links between vocabularies. One issue we noticed with FAST was that many of the mapped terms were not being linked. We tracked this back to the term being in NAF rather than in LCSH. So to make the FAST data more usable we would have to include the entire LC authority file, both names and subjects. It is something we are looking into at the moment... Andy. === Question1: who OWNS the NAF/LCSH files that needs to be reimbursed? Question2: does OCLC or FAST (etc.) pay that owner for NAF and LCSH, and their updates? Assumption: OCLC get NAF and LCSH, and their updates from LC/NACO for free (Roy, Andy, correct me if I¹m wrong) Proposal: on the same basis OCLC get¹s these files, CODE4LIB could get them as well Rationale: given opensource technology (for ex. Apache Solr 1.3) and software, CODE4LIB could also explore options for controlled vocabularies. Ya¹aqov
