Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Owen Stephens
On 13 Jun 2013, at 02:57, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: quick followup on the thread.. github: I looked at the cooperhewitt collection but don't see a way to download the content...I could copy and paste their content but that may not be the best approach for my

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Dana Pearson
Thanks Owen, I conflated github and dropbox in my earlier summary and left out any reference to dropbox...they do the email requirement...sorry...it was late and a hurried summary...will look again for that download option on github thanks again, dana On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Daniel Lovins daniel.lov...@nyu.edu wrote: If anyone from HathiTrust is watching this thread, I'd also be curious if they're considering bulk record downloads via something other than OAI [1]. [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel Lovins
Thanks very much, Eric. I'll definitely take a look at your blog post. - Daniel Daniel Lovins Head of Knowledge Access, Design Development Knowledge Access Resource Management Services New York University, Division of Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor New York, NY 10003-7112

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Ford, Kevin
Of Dana Pearson Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:20 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Kevin, Eric 7zip worked fine to unzip and records look pretty good since they used 653 and preserved the string from the metadata

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Dana Pearson
] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:20 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Kevin, Eric 7zip worked fine to unzip and records look pretty good since they used 653 and preserved the string

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Ross Singer
Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Cary Gordon
I would put them on Dropbox or S3. The Dropbox free account is 5 GB. Cary On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Dana Pearson
Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again hadn't thought of the Internet archive but that might be good and I'll take a look at dropbox and Eric's other suggestions...altogether new to the 'cloud'

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:06, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again Yes - that's the main use (git is version control software, GitHub hosts git

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Ford, Kevin
of Congress Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Ford, Kevin
10:57 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on your site somewhere, served with a Content-Disposition: attachment header so they trigger a download when accessed

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Lovins
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:12 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Doh! I read all the emails in the thread except for Eric's, which asked the same question. Either

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Dana Pearson
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Dana Pearson
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Dana Pearson
to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't

[CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-11 Thread Dana Pearson
I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-11 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on your site somewhere, served with a Content-Disposition: attachment header so they trigger a download when accessed? E.g. here's a