John Hostage at Harvard could probably tell you the person to contact John Hostage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data 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
