Arash - you might not want to use a straight dump of worldcat catalog
records- at least not without the associated holdings information.*
There are a lot of quasi-duplicate records that are sufficiently broken
that the worldcat de-duplication algorithm refuses to merge them. These
records will
Thank you Roy and Simon for the info.
As for your second point, I suppose one advantage of using the WorldCat
API at this experimental stage is that the returned bib records are
already FRBR-ized.
Ross - Thanks for the link of Open Library data dump. WorldCat
collection is 2 orders of magnitude
Arash,
Yes, we have made WorldCat available to researchers under a special
license agreement. I suggest contacting Thom Hickeyhic...@oclc.org
about such an arrangement. Thanks,
Roy
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Arash.Joorabchi arash.joorab...@ul.ie wrote:
Dear Karen,
I am conducting a
Dear Karen,
I am conducting a research experiment on automatic text classification and I am
trying to retrieve top matching bib records (which include DDC fields) for a
set of keyphrases extracted from a given document. So, I suppose this is a
rather exceptional use case. In fact, the right
On May 18, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Arash.Joorabchi wrote:
Dear Karen,
I am conducting a research experiment on automatic text classification and I
am trying to retrieve top matching bib records (which include DDC fields) for
a set of keyphrases extracted from a given document. So, I suppose
I forwarded this thread to the Product Manager for the WorldCat Search
API. She responded back that unfortunately this query is not possible
using the API at this time.
FYI, the SRU interface to WorldCat Search API doesn't currently
support any scan type searches either.
Is there a particular
There is no standard way in CQL to express field X is not empty.
Depending on implementations, NOT srw.dd= might work (but evidently
doesn't in this case). Another possibility is srw.dd=*, but again
that may or may not work, and might be appallingly inefficient if it
does. NOT srw.dd=null will
Hi mark,
Srw.dd=* does not work either:
Identifier: info:srw/diagnostic/1/27
Meaning:
Details:srw.dd
Message:The index [srw.dd] did not include a searchable value
I suppose the only option left is to retrieve everything and filter the results
on the client side.
Hi Andy,
I am a SRU newbie myself, so I don't know how this could be achieved
using scan operations and could not find much info on SRU website
(http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/).
As for the wildcards, according to this guide:
