Thanks everyone for your responses- especially for pointing out the classify web service, which was new to me. >In case anyone wants to have a go, here's the ddc/lcsh data I extracted from the LC 2007 retrospective file [1]: > http://inkdroid.org/data/dewey-lcsh.gz >The file contains ddc/lcsh combinations from 2,909,673 records. Thank you, Ed! Something like that I had in mind. This list might help us with a good part of our records. Best, Irina ------- Irina Arndt Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) Library System Coordinator Amalienstr. 33 D-80799 Muenchen, Germany Tel. +49 89 38602-254 Fax +49 89 38602-290 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.mpdl.mpg.de