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Wed Apr 13 13:54:34 2016
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I'll contact the webmaster.

Cindy Harper

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Denton
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

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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