Summary: | Automate MARC Authority Updates with the Library of Congress | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Jessie Zairo <jzairo> |
Component: | MARC Authority data support | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | flyingendpaper, phil |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Jessie Zairo
2025-01-23 13:18:12 UTC
LoC doesn't have an API for authorities (unless you consider downloading them one-by-one via z39.50 an API). For bulk authorities, you're looking at https://www.loc.gov/cds/products/marcDist.php where it costs $13,555 per year to get access to their FTP server with updates for both names and subjects (and you have to contact them to ask whether your plans for redistribution meet with their approval). Sounds more like something for a paid plugin and webservice run by a support provider with lots of US-based customers than something for Koha's core. |