On 13 April 2016, Mark Watkins wrote:
> I'm a library sciences newbie, but it seems like LCSH doesn't really provide a
> formal hierarchy of genre/topic, just a giant controlled vocabulary. Bisac
> seems to provide the "expected" hierarchy.
>
> Is anyone aware of any approaches (or better yet code!) that translates lcsh
> to something like BISAC categories (either BISAC specifically or some other
> hierarchy/ontology)? General web searching didn't find anything obvious.
There's HILCC, the Hierarchical Interface of LC Classification:
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/subject_map.html
Bill
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Received on Wed Apr 13 2016 - 10:39:25 EDT