> When you say "ClassWeb can't be used as a source", do you mean it's not
> what's needed here, or that it's not permitted to use data extracted
> from ClassWeb for other purposes?
There's no efficient way to actually download the data and there could
be issues with copying information directly from a product.
> - If the LC schedules are elsewhere, say a printed version, and we do
> the work of putting together the class numbers and class names, and then
> build a database for that, is that "ok"? =)
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but this is government generated
information so there should be no issue with this approach.
> I guess I can ask the NCSU Libraries (Endeca) folks how they did it (it
> seems that they do cluster by "LC range" which seems to be from the LC
> Class schedules)...
I thought you meant something much more specific than this -- I was
imagining breaking things down all the way to individual numbers . The
level of detail in the NCSU LC hierarchy is low enough to easily be
handled by a manual process. Maybe someone from NCSU could comment on
that, but that's what it looks like from the outside.
For that level of detail, I'd be inclined to take the easy way out,
download the conspectus categories, and see if that meets your needs.
kyle
Received on Fri Feb 01 2008 - 20:00:21 EST