Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
Apologies! Here's a link that should be more durable: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/bilal/lc_dimension.xml Regards, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 8:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi Bilal, sounds very interesting but the link does not connect to anything don't have an immediate need but i work with XSL, MARCXML and would be fun to experiment regards, dana On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Bilal Khalid bilal.kha...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Ken, Here's a link to an XML mapping of LC call numbers ranges to categories that we use in an indexing software. It may be a bit hefty for your needs (almost 6000 mappings), but hope it helps! http://bilalk.library.utoronto.ca/lc_dimension.xml Cheers, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com Metadata and Bibliographic Services for Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
yes, that works, thanks Bilal...very impressive regards, dana On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Bilal Khalid bilal.kha...@utoronto.ca wrote: Apologies! Here's a link that should be more durable: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/bilal/lc_dimension.xml Regards, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 8:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi Bilal, sounds very interesting but the link does not connect to anything don't have an immediate need but i work with XSL, MARCXML and would be fun to experiment regards, dana On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Bilal Khalid bilal.kha...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Ken, Here's a link to an XML mapping of LC call numbers ranges to categories that we use in an indexing software. It may be a bit hefty for your needs (almost 6000 mappings), but hope it helps! http://bilalk.library.utoronto.ca/lc_dimension.xml Cheers, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com Metadata and Bibliographic Services for Libraries -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com Metadata and Bibliographic Services for Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
The University of Michigan Library did something like this using a three-tier taxonomy http://www.lib.umich.edu/browse/categories/ Jesse On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
Hi Ken, Here's a link to an XML mapping of LC call numbers ranges to categories that we use in an indexing software. It may be a bit hefty for your needs (almost 6000 mappings), but hope it helps! http://bilalk.library.utoronto.ca/lc_dimension.xml Cheers, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
Thanks all, This has given me a few things to work with and I think I can move forward. Joys Ken -Original Message- From: Will Martin [mailto:w...@will-martin.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 5:26 PM To: Code for Libraries Cc: Ken Irwin Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Until recently, we had a New Books feature on our site that sorted out new books by LC classification (in addition to some other views). I have attached a ZIP file containing: 1) An HTML file documenting the structure of the database table that it pulled our new book data from; 2) The PHP to load a subject area, using the first letter of the LC call number as a broad category. It's not especially sophisticated, and it basically reiterates the broadest LC classifications, which may not make a whole lot of sense to some end users. But perhaps you'll find it useful as a starting point. This one takes the letter from a parameter in the GET request, but you could easily get the call number from a database query and slice the first character off. I'd love to show you a live copy, but unfortunately the New Books feature got decommissioned a couple weeks ago on the grounds that it took too much staff time to separate out new acquisitions. They are now sent directly to the stacks with no markers in the catalog to differentiate them from any other book, so the corresponding web stuff was removed. Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
Hi Bilal, sounds very interesting but the link does not connect to anything don't have an immediate need but i work with XSL, MARCXML and would be fun to experiment regards, dana On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Bilal Khalid bilal.kha...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Ken, Here's a link to an XML mapping of LC call numbers ranges to categories that we use in an indexing software. It may be a bit hefty for your needs (almost 6000 mappings), but hope it helps! http://bilalk.library.utoronto.ca/lc_dimension.xml Cheers, -Bilal -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com Metadata and Bibliographic Services for Libraries
