Library Cataloging
Seen elsewhere but too pertinent not to mention, is that the LC authority file is now available in MARCXML.
MARCXML
- Permalink Service For Authority Data Available At Lc
Image via WikipediaWidely posted and distributed. The Library of Congress is pleased to announce an expansion of its LCCN Permalink Service for the Library's name and subject authority records. These persistent URLs are based on the Library of Congress...
- Marcview And Marconvert Now Open Source
The source code for the MARCView and MARConvert products is now available for download.MARCView is the easiest way to view, search, and print ANSI/ISO standard MARC records, UNIMARC records, and MARCXML records. It will also handle many files that are...
- Non-latin Characters In Name Authority Records
News from the CPSO.The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., in consultation with Library and Archives Canada) have agreed to a basic outline that will allow for the...
- Names
VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File is a joint project of OCLC with the Library of Congress and Die Deutsche Bibliothek.Once the existing authority records are linked, shared OAI servers will be established to maintain the authority files and...
- Marc Transformations
Some notes on open source projects this morning. MARC4J is currently at beta version 6.The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC records in Java.Using MARC4J it is easy to write any kind...
Library Cataloging
Authority Records in MARCXML
Seen elsewhere but too pertinent not to mention, is that the LC authority file is now available in MARCXML.
Using a custom agent, we were able to harvest 6.95 million authority records using the publicly accessible interface to the Library of Congress authority files located at authorities.loc.gov.First seen on librarian.netRetrieved records have been converted into MarcXMLAccented characters have been converted into NFC (Composed Normal Form).Initial checks against authorities.loc.gov indicate that the retrieved data faithfully reflect that on the original system; however these checks are still only preliminary.
Cross checks against Classification Web have revealed some inconsistencies. For this reason, we are releasing this data for research purposes only. This data is not suitable for production use.
MARCXML
- Permalink Service For Authority Data Available At Lc
Image via WikipediaWidely posted and distributed. The Library of Congress is pleased to announce an expansion of its LCCN Permalink Service for the Library's name and subject authority records. These persistent URLs are based on the Library of Congress...
- Marcview And Marconvert Now Open Source
The source code for the MARCView and MARConvert products is now available for download.MARCView is the easiest way to view, search, and print ANSI/ISO standard MARC records, UNIMARC records, and MARCXML records. It will also handle many files that are...
- Non-latin Characters In Name Authority Records
News from the CPSO.The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., in consultation with Library and Archives Canada) have agreed to a basic outline that will allow for the...
- Names
VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File is a joint project of OCLC with the Library of Congress and Die Deutsche Bibliothek.Once the existing authority records are linked, shared OAI servers will be established to maintain the authority files and...
- Marc Transformations
Some notes on open source projects this morning. MARC4J is currently at beta version 6.The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC records in Java.Using MARC4J it is easy to write any kind...