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Find subject categories for a list of ISSNs and add them to a spreadsheet
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investigate WorldCat API for ISSN and Call Number lookup #5

Open ghost opened 10 years ago

jwestgard commented 10 years ago

Some of you may have seen the thread on Code4Lib just yesterday on a related topic -- in particular an app that would enable a translation from Call Number to LC classes and what they actually mean. In any case, one of the interesting tidbits in that discussion was a reference to an ongoing development project around this very issue, described here: http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1750

jwestgard commented 10 years ago

This came across on C4L yesterday. It seems like it might be relevant to this project:

I didn't delve too deeply into it, but it looks like it takes an ISBN and looks up the Dewey and LC classification numbers. Perhaps this could get us a step closer to the info we need? Also, the second link has sample code for querying the classify API with Python, which might serve as a useful model in general.