The University of Michigan maintains what we call “High Level Browse” — a
mapping of LC/Dewey call numbers to a limited hierarchy, based loosely
around academic departments (at least at the time it started). It’s still
maintained, and may prove generally useful as well.

The HLB hierarchy <http://www.lib.umich.edu/browse> gives you an idea of
what it is, and you can download and XML dump of the categories and their
associated call number ranges
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/browse/categories/xml.php>
​(1.8mb) ​
if that’s your thing.

​

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:38 AM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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Library Systems Programmer
University of Michigan Library