Dear All,
The Library of Congress has issued two solicitations (RFQs) for
Bibframe-related development work. We want to be sure to advertise these
possibilities to this community. You can read more about them at the below
links.
The first is for a Bibframe Search and Display tool (to be
] Announcement: Two New Vocabularies added to
LC's Linked Data Service
Hi Kevin,
2014-06-25 23:00 GMT+02:00 Ford, Kevin k...@loc.gov:
The Library of Congress is pleased to make two new vocabularies
available as linked data
congratulation, it's very useful. I have a question: do you have a SPARQL
Dear All,
Please see below a copy and pasted message, which was posted to the Bibframe
listerv and also a number of (mostly) cataloging listservs. Although it was
developed and sponsored by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), we're
interested in the broadest possible feedback from
The Library of Congress is pleased to make two new vocabularies available as
linked data from LC's Linked Data Service, ID.LOC.GOV: the Library of Congress
Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) and the American Folklife
Society's Ethnographic Thesaurus (AFSET). The LCMPT is a
All *.loc.gov web sites will be closed, including the two you quoted.
The Internet Archive's Way Back Machine is probably your best bet for these
types of things:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.loc.gov/marc/
the problem may be fairly old.
SK
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Ford, Kevin
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:04 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Marcive.com hosts are compromised
http://marcive.com
http://marcive.com goes to the right place for me. It is the one you mentioned
in the subject line of your email.
http://marchive.com (note the h) goes to a domain squatter. It is the one
you mentioned in the body of your email.
Which one is causing you the issue?
Cordially,
Kevin
The Library of Congress is pleased to make the Cultural Heritage Organizations
vocabulary available as linked data from LC's Linked Data Service, ID.LOC.GOV.
The Cultural Heritage Organizations vocabulary is a linked data representation
of the MARC Organizations code list, which, among other
to access.
thanks for your interest..
regards,
dana
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ford, Kevin k...@loc.gov wrote:
Hi Dana,
Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project
Gutenberg's MARC files? See, e.g.:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki
Hi Dana,
Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project Gutenberg's MARC
files? See, e.g.:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28automatically_generated.29
Yours,
Kevin
--
Kevin Ford
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of
Doh!
I read all the emails in the thread except for Eric's, which asked the same
question.
Either way, his or mine, nevertheless curious.
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Eric Phetteplace
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Dear Josh,
Take a look at Mike's email below, which may have quickly fell down the inbox,
helped along by an unhelpful reply. It has the suggest pattern, but to repeat
the general pattern:
This will provide auto-suggestions for Subjects, ChildrensSubjects, GenreForms,
and Names:
This would work, except I would need a way to get all the subjects
rather than just biology.
-- If you want all the subjects. [period], take a look at the download page:
http://id.loc.gov/download/
There are bulk downloads for LCSH and the LC/NACO file of Names.
The suggest service (described
it looks like LCSH
is moving past this string-based hierarchy in favor of one expressed in
terms of linked data.
-- Oh, I've never received that impression. Pre-coordination - which you
referred to as hierarchical sets of terms - is alive and well. A number of
studies were done in the
The Library of Congress is pleased to make the K Class - Law Classification -
and all its subclasses available as linked data from LC's Linked Data Service,
ID.LOC.GOV. K Class joins the B, N, M, and Z Classes released in June 2012.
With about 2.2 million new resources added to ID.LOC.GOV, K
All Library of Congress systems will be taken offline beginning Friday evening.
This includes LCCN Permalink, Z39.50 and SRU services, ID.LOC.GOV, all
listservs, and, of course, the catalog. *All* Library systems. Service will be
restored by Tuesday.
The Library of Congress has planned
Ideally, you shouldn't need the hathifiles.
The HathiTrust search page links to an OpenSearch document [1], which
promisingly identifies an RSS feed and a JSON serialization of the search
results. Neither appears to work. In theory, doing as Jon says and then
appending view=rss would get you
Announcement: 4 LC Classification Classes added to LC Linked Data Service
The Library of Congress is pleased to make available the B, M, N, and Z Classes
of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) from the Library's Linked Data
Service (ID.LOC.GOV).
This effort not only provides URIs
I finally had occasion today (read: remembered) to see if the *nix file
command would recognize a MARC record file. I haven't tested extensively, but
it did identify the file as MARC21 Bibliographic record. It also correctly
identified a MARC21 Authority Record. I'm running the most recent
:14 PM, Ford, Kevin wrote:
I finally had occasion today (read: remembered) to see if the *nix
file command would recognize a MARC record file. I haven't tested
extensively, but it did identify the file as MARC21 Bibliographic
record. It also correctly identified a MARC21 Authority Record
Hi Paul,
I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area
presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the
Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem
(and author identity management more generally). You
Bulk downloads of the Library of Congress *Name* Authority File (NAF) are now
available. The current bulk download is only MADS/RDF. We'll make a SKOS/RDF
download available in the near future. We are offering two serializations:
n-triples and RDF/XML.
The LC *Subject* Heading (LCSH) file
Announcement: New Vocabulary Data Added to LC Authorities and Vocabularies
Service
The Library of Congress is pleased to make available additional vocabularies
from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which provides
access to Library of Congress standards and
Exiftool [1] and trusty ImageMagick [2] will work. With ImageMagick it is as
easy as:
convert image.tiff image.xmp
Members of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) have been working on/with
embedded metadata for a few years now. There may be something more to glean
from the working group's
The GeographicArea codes have been available from [1] in XML [2] since at least
late 2007 [3]. I can't say with 100% certainty that the XML structure has
remained perfectly consistent since 2007, but eyeballing the 2007 version and
comparing it to currently available file suggests that the
Actually, it appears to depend on whose Authority record you're looking at.
The Canadians, Australians, and Israelis have it as a CorporateName (110), as
do the French (210 - unimarc); LC and the Germans say it's a Geographic Name.
In the case of LCSH, therefore, it would be a 151.
I couldn't get Simon's MARC 21 Magic file to work. Among other issues, I
received line too long errors. But, since I've been curious about this for
sometime, I figured I'd take a whack at it myself. Try this:
#
# MARC 21 Magic (Second cut)
# Set
Announcement: New Vocabularies Added to LC Authorities and Vocabularies Service
The Library of Congress is pleased to make available new vocabularies from its
Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which provides access to
Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as
Announcement: MADS/RDF for review
A MADS/RDF ontology developed at the Library of Congress is available for a
public review period until Jan. 14, 2011. The MADS/RDF (Metadata Authority
Description Schema in RDF) vocabulary is a data model for authority and
vocabulary data used within the
Dear David,
I believe they're codes for universities. UCSC is probably Univ of Calif Santa
Cruz. UOM is University of Michigan. (You'll see STANFORD and OCLC in the
results also, though OCLC is not a university).
I tracked one of items in the ATOM feed to the UM record:
Following on Dave's recommendation, you could also use Google Books' Data API
[1]. Search for the book, get a structured ATOM feed as a response, presume
the first hit is your book, and then follow the ATOM feed link for that books'
metadata. It isn't going to be perfect; I'd be interested to
We've been using Orbeon forms for about a year now for cataloging our digital
collections. We use Fedora Commons, so using the XML as input and outputting
to XML seemed a no brainer. It has worked very nicely for editing VRA Core4
records. But, instead of doing anything terribly fancy with
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