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This topic came up a few weeks ago on code4lib too, where were you Ed!? :) I will echo something that Roy mentioned in the thread from a few weeks back, would the LOC be willing to create a web service where you could supply a call number and it would return the heirarchy of topic areas for that number? Thanks Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Ed Summers > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:19 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet? > > It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library > discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian > Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC Classification > Outline pdf files, converted them to text, wrote a python munger to > convert the text into what ended up being a SKOS RDF file. We made the > code available [2] and you can see the resulting SKOS (which needs > some URI work) [3]. > > It's kind of a work in progress (still). I wanted to get to the point > that the rdf file was leveraged in a little python library (possibly > as a pickled data structure) for easily validating LC numbers and > looking them up in the outline. > > I'd be interested in any feedback. > > //Ed > > [1] http://mail.archive.org/pipermail/ol-lib/2007-September/000069.html > [2] http://inkdroid.org/svn/lcco-skos/trunk/rdfizer/ > [3] http://inkdroid.org/tmp/lcco.rdf