Since these are your libraries' records, you can certainly download them
again from OCLC. I've also known libraries in the past that have been
able to have oclc generate a subset of records from their database --
though in these cases, this always has involved a cost to purchase the
records. In terms of how easy it is to do on your own -- if you don't
have OCLC do it, you would likely need a list of all the OCLC numbers
that you are interested in. With that list, you could easily batch
export the data again from Worldcat using Connexion.
--TR
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
Alberto Accomazzi
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] getting Worldcat records
Our project maintains a database of bibliographic metadata for all
things in astronomy and most of physics. We'd like to add records for
books that have been recently added to our library and to correlate
existing records with the library holdings. Sounds easy enough, but
because of the intricacies of Harvard libraries administration we
haven't been able to get a dump of the records, much less a feed.
The recent emails about OCLC worldcat records made me wonder if we
could
get the equivalent data from them (since our library subscribes to
them). Essentially what I'd like is a dump of all QB and QC records
in
OCLC entered by Harvard, so we can index them and then point to the
library record in OCLC. Is this (a) legal, (b) feasible, (c) easy? I
assume the answer to (a) and (b) is yes, since we have our library's
support. If not, are there alternatives? I learned about openlibrary
only yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to explore what's in it
yet...
Thanks,
-- Alberto
