HILCC: A hierarchical interface to library of congress classification

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 19-49

  Davis, Stephen Paul ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia University Libraries; End user interfaces; Hierarchical subject menus; Library of Congress classification; Metadata; Subject access

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746365514     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v05n04_03     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Examples of the various components of this project may be found in Carol Mandel's "Manifestations of Cataloging in the Era of Metadata" [outline & slides], ALCTS/LITA Institute on Managing Metadata for the Digital Library, May 4-5, 1998, available online at: http://www.Columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?cul.1BILCW.
2. For the uninitiated, LC Classification was developed at the Library of Congress beginning about 1899 and was not, contrary to rumor, based on the organization, of Thomas Jefferson's library but rather on Charles Ammi Cutters Expansive Classification (1891). A convenient outline of LCC is available online at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/ cpso/lcco/lcco.html. LC Classification numbers constitute the first portion of LC call numbers and are carried in MARC21 field 050, subfield a.
3. See, for example, Vizine-Goetz, D. "Using Library Classification Schemes for Internet Resources. " In: Proceedings of the OCLC Internet Cataloging Colloquium, San Antonio, Texas, January 19, 1996. URL http://staff.oclc.org/~vizine/Intercat/ vizine-goetz.htm.
4. The working group currently includes the following Columbia Libraries staff members: Rick J. Block, Stephen P. Davis, Kate Harcourt, Sarah H. Witte, Robert A. Wolven; in addition, former staff member Jeffrey Sowder contributed to the development of HILCC.
5. Columbia's HILCC documentation and current version of the LCC map is available at: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolov?cul.IBQN3R.