I've often thought that this would be an interesting exercise if someone
would undertake it.
Just a reminder: in theory (IN THEORY) the first subject heading in an
LC record is the one most semantically close to the assigned subject
classification. So perhaps a first pass with the FIRST 6xx might give a
more refined matching. And then it would be interesting to compare that
with the results using all 600-651's.
kc
On 12/10/13, 1:18 PM, Edward Summers wrote:
Not a naive idea at all. If you have the stomach for it, you could extract the
Subject Heading / Dewey combinations out of say the LC Catalog MARC data [1] to
use as training data for some kind of clustering [2] algorithm. You might even
be able to do something simple like keep a count of the Dewey ranges associated
with each subject heading.
I’m kind of curious myself, so I could work on getting the subject heading /
dewey combinations if you want?
//Ed
[1] https://archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis
On Dec 10, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Irina Arndt <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi CODE4LIB,
we would like to add DDC classes to a bunch of MARC records, which contains
only LoC Subject Headings.
Does anybody know, if a mapping between LCSH and DDC is anywhere existent (and
available)?
I understood, that WebDewey http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey.en.html
might provide such a service, but
· we are no OCLC customers or subscribers to WebDewey
· even if we were, I'm not sure, if the service matches our needs
I'm thinking of a tool, where I can upload my list of subject headings and get
back a list, where the matching Dewey classes have been added (but a 'simple'
csv file with LCSH terms and DDC classes would be helpful as well- I am fully
aware, that neither LCSH nor DDC are simple at all...) . Naïve idea...?
Thanks for any clues,
Irina
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