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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 -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/