[CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk
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 api calls yet. I've also read that ONIX records often have a BISAC code, is there a good source that might cover many publishers? http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/index.html http://www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/numbers/ eby
Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk
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 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.blogspot.com/2008/05/endeca-developments-in-opac-world.html Andrew On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com wrote: 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 api calls yet. I've also read that ONIX records often have a BISAC code, is there a good source that might cover many publishers? http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/index.html http://www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/numbers/ eby
Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk
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 1/21/09 9:12 AM, Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com wrote: 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 api calls yet. I've also read that ONIX records often have a BISAC code, is there a good source that might cover many publishers? http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/index.html http://www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/numbers/ eby --
Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk
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 versus human recataloging. eby On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Roy Tennant tenna...@oclc.org wrote: 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 1/21/09 € 9:12 AM, Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com wrote: 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 api calls yet. I've also read that ONIX records often have a BISAC code, is there a good source that might cover many publishers? http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/index.html http://www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/numbers/ eby --
