[DDI-users] Re: orl ICPSR records in local data catalog?

[Sherry H. Lake]

A question was posted to the ORL mailing list on "Is anyone 
downloading
ICPSR's XML study abstracts and including them in
your local data catalog or general library catalog."  At 
the
University of Virginia we have converted ICPSR's DDI (XML) 
files
to MARC records and have included all of them in our online 
catalog.

Go to our online catalog:
http://virgo.lib.virginia.edu

Type "icpsr xml" (without the quotes) in the Quick search 
box
and click "Keyword Anywhere"

I would love to share our experience and documentation on
our project.  You can contact me: shlake at virginia.edu
for more information.

P.S. The ICPSR XML records are available via ftp from icpsr:
ftp://ftp.icpsr.umich.edu/pub/matvey/
(in the file abstracts.tar.gz).

--
Sherry Lake                           shlake at virginia.edu
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
Alderman Library, University of Virginia
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  "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities
            of life." --- Henry Ward Beecher
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--On Monday, March 22, 2004 12:38 PM -0500 "Donna J. 
Tolson" <djt5k at cms.mail.virginia.edu> wrote:

> Dan,
>
> I'm going to have Sherry Lake, who created the conversion
> program, respond about how we harvested the ICPSR
> records. We shared the program with ICPSR after the
> October OR meeting, but never formalized any
> documentation, explanation, etc. We'll get back in touch
> with them to see what would be the best vehicle for
> providing more informatino about what we did: the DDI
> website? the ICPSR bulletin? I'd be interested in your
> thoughts.
>
> Best regards,
> Donna
>
> ***************************
> Donna J. Tolson
> Associate Director
> Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
> Alderman Library, UVA
> 434.982.2957 FAX434.924.1431
>
>
>
> --On Friday, March 19, 2004 5:41 PM -0800 Dan Tsang
> <dtsang at lib.uci.edu> wrote:
>
>> Julie, looks great!
>>
>> Is the DDI/XML - MARC conversion program available?
>>
>> Also, how did u get the ICPSR records?
>>
>> dan
>>
>> Daniel C. Tsang
>> Bibliographer for Asian American Studies, Economics &
>> Political Science Social Science Data Librarian
>> 380 Jack Langson Library, University of California
>> PO Box 19557, Irvine CA 92623-9557, USA
>> E-mail: dtsang at uci.edu; Tel: (949) 824-4978; fax: (949)
>> 824-2700 UCI Social Science Data Archives:
>> http://data.lib.uci.edu Subject Guides:
>> http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subject.html
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Donna J. Tolson wrote:
>>
>>> Distributed by: The Informal List for ICPSR Official
>>> Representatives
>>>
>>> Julie,
>>>
>>> Yes, we've written an XML-to-MARC conversion program
>>> that allows us to load the ICPSR records into our OPAC.
>>> You can see what the records look like by going to:
>>>
>>> http://www.lib.virginia.edu/index.html
>>>
>>> and going to the library catalog, called VIRGO.
>>>
>>> Donna Tolson
>>>
>>> ***************************
>>> Donna J. Tolson
>>> Associate Director
>>> Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
>>> Alderman Library, UVA
>>> 434.982.2957 FAX434.924.1431
>>>
>>
>