Yep, I caught the license information but it appeared that they didn't
really have much more than a list for you to use locally. More or less
stated how you line up their headings with your local items is up to
you. Probably won't pursue the cost until I know that it can be done
programmatically ve
The BISG licenses BISAC to institutions that want to incorporate the
terminology into their "internal systems"[1]. I'm not sure what this means
for API access. But an email to the BISG seems the minimum of due diligence.
Roy
[1] http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/license.html
On 1/21/09
And if you could get access to the catalogue, you could then train a
classifier (maybe bayes?) to predict BISAC given the other types of
headings (or other data) in the records.
Rob
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:21 -0500, Andrew Nagy wrote:
> I saw a great presentation by Jesse Haro from Phoenix Publi
I saw a great presentation by Jesse Haro from Phoenix Public on their Endeca
catalog. They had their catalogers go back and recatalog the entire
collection with BISAC headings. You might want to see if you can get in
touch with him to see if he has any information for you.
http://mlamasslib.blog
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good BISAC Subject Headings
source for looking up a recommended BISAC based on ISBN, LCSH, etc.
I've found some pages on oclc.org saying they were starting work on
crosswalks and possibly including them in WorldCat but I haven't seen
any returned in any WorldCat
