http://openlibrary.org/books/OL100043M/EX-IM_Bank_oversight_hearing?b=2&a=1&_compare=Compare&m=diff
shows that the ImportBot only removed periods (.) from subjects and
added the source record in revision 2. Indeed, the comment with the
change is "found a matching MARC record", but it's not added as a
machine comment.

It looks like the source_records field may be more useful in this case.

On 6 March 2013 20:36, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Ben!  I tried ?rev=1, but didn't it didn't occur to me that the
> history mode would work.
>
> On closer inspection, I actually did find this information in the dump in
> the source_records field e.g.
>
> "source_records": [
>   "marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part28.dat:62741961:1376",
>   "marc:marc_loc_updates/v36.i33.records.utf8:3020091:1375"
> ]
>
> for http://openlibrary.org/books/OL100043M.json
>
> I think that will provide enough information to do a tally.  The first
> source record matches the source listed in the initial import.  I'm not sure
> what the second source record is since I don't see it referenced in the
> change history http://openlibrary.org/books/OL100043M.json?m=history
>
> Thanks for setting me on the right path!
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> By replacing the title in the URL with ".json", which gives [0], I got
>> the JSON view of the history. This is the "History API" [1]. It looks
>> like there is a record for each revision, that stores modification
>> date and comment, amongst other things. The first revision has
>> "machine_comment": "bpl_marc/bpl114.mrc:36416736:831". I assume this
>> is the (only) place where source record links are stored (i.e. in
>> metarecords linked to normal records).
>>
>> I haven't looked at a complete dump with all revisions, but if you say
>> there is no history information included, I trust that that
>> information is not in the dump. I'm unaware of other dumps that could
>> include it.
>>
>> Perhaps the information can more easily be extracted from the database
>> underneath Infogami?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> [0] http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13446224M.json?m=history
>> [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api#history
>>
>> On 6 March 2013 19:45, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > If I look at the history for an edition, I can see the source MARC
>> > record
>> > and the contributor of that record associated with rev 1 of the history.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13446224M/The_history_of_the_Yorubas?m=history
>> >
>> > For the above record, the links are to:
>> >
>> > http://openlibrary.org/show-records/bpl_marc/bpl114.mrc:36416736:831
>> > http://archive.org/details/bpl_marc
>> >
>> > Where is this information stored?  Is it available in the dump? (not as
>> > far
>> > as I can see)
>> >
>> > Also, while investigating this, I thought perhaps the recentchanges API
>> > might have the info (can't really tell), but it doesn't seem that the
>> > data
>> > that backs that API is available in dump form.  Is that correct?  Is it
>> > intentional?
>> >
>> > I'd like to use this information to figure out which are the largest
>> > sources
>> > of data to help prioritize vetting efforts.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
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