On 6/22/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
Can't you use:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml
?
It's what I used to make marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/
Yes, I can! I didn't know about/hadn't found that one either hadn't been
mentioned until now. Thanks! Where did you find that?
That's potentially an even more convenient format for my use case than
the RDF version.
Although like Karen pointed out, not sure why you can't use the
RDF/XML from id.loc.gov
-Ross.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind<[email protected]> wrote:
Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC
geographic codes available at any persistent URL?
They're in HTML at http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_code.html . I
actually had a script that automatically downloaded from there and "scraped"
the HTML -- but sometime since I wrote the script, the HTML structure on the
page changed and it broke.
(I kind of thought that was unlikely since that HTML page itself was machine
generated -- but I guess they changed the software that generated it.
Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which is
why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?)
