Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-12 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, Thanks for the all the pointers; just what I wanted, and gives me plenty of ways to test the generic meta data handling. Great! Regards, Alex On Jan 12, 2012 3:19 AM, "Simon Spero" wrote: > You can get anything you want > At Brewster Kahle's restaurant. > http://openlibrary.org/data#bulk

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
You can get anything you want At Brewster Kahle's restaurant. http://openlibrary.org/data#bulk_download Simon On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc > records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch syst

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch system that OCLC released as open source. They date back to 2002 and will not contain any Unicode, if you were hoping to include that as part of your testing. Ralph -Or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
Alexander Johannesen writes > So in order to test the integrity and performance of my system so far I'm > wondering if there's a suitable open dataset of bibliographic records that > aren't too obscure (meaning, I can find the titles at amazon or Open > Library) that you could recommend? More th

[CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, I'm in the middle of creating a meta data management system (including merging and persistent identifier management) for a somewhat different domain (intranets and business integration), but it's based on Topic Maps and so is well suited to other means of meta data handling / mangling. It's