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creation,
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
I went through a process similar to what you describe sometime back for a
tool I made (i.e. I could find no easily downloadable info). You can
download something that will be easier to parse from
http://calculate.alptown.com/gac.js
It's probably not 100% accurate as I haven't downloaded for
And yes, I realize the structure of the data in the file referenced below is
idiotic even if it is easier to parse than HTML.
But this was part of the first javascript program I ever wrote, and that was
back in 1997 when getting real time interaction with browsers was harder
(and I never bothered
Man, I figured it was there somewhere I just didn't know it.
If it's really not there, can we like start a campaign to convince LC
that part of maintaining the MARC vocabularies is making them available
at a persistent URL, in machine-readable fashion, updated and maintained
by them as
PS: Kyle, that's your own version? That's... sort of kind of machine
readable. Well, not really. I can't figure out quite what's going on
there, the label/value pairs are just stuffed in single, javascript
string literals, seperated by newlines, or sometimes (but sometimes not)
with Assigned
Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines URLs
for each of the MARC geographic area codes.
Stephen
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC
geographic codes available at
Yes -- it is something I created out of thin air.
It was originally designed for catalogers who wanted a visual display to
duplicate the print, and achieving adequate performance on interactive
search, retrieval, and rendering on the computers/browsers at the time made
me have to include all the
Aha, that's probably what I need. And now I remember Ross probably
pointed that out to me before.
I'm still having trouble figuring out how to get from the rdf-triples
it's got there to a hash of codes (as they appear in marc records, not
URIs), to labels.
It seems like it in fact will be a
I wasn't aware of this, but it definitely didn't exist way back when I
started. You can download all the GACs in XML from that page.
kyle
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Stephen Hearn s-h...@umn.edu wrote:
Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines URLs
for each of the
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu:
Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC
geographic codes available at any persistent URL?
Not sure how persistent, but here's Ross's version:
http://marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/
I often made the point at MARBI meetings
It can be found at
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html
Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF, N-triples,
and JSON.
Tom
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Stephen Hearn s-h...@umn.edu wrote:
Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines
It can be found at
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html
Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF, N-triples,
and JSON.
Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are lists of
URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of
The result was that a few meetings later LC announced that they
had coded the MARC online pages in XML, and were generating the HTML
from that. I think I was mis-understood.
No doubt, but man if they'd then just SHARE that XML with us at a persistent
URL, and keep the structure of that XML
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu:
Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are
lists of URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of
RDF-triples, but where two parts of each triple is identical in
every triple just saying this URL is part of the
Can't you use:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml
?
It's what I used to make marccodes.heroku.com/gacs/
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 rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Can
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