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Amicable Divorce: Programmatic Derivation of Faceted Data from Library of Congress Subject Headings for Music
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly  (2019)
  • Casey Mullin, Western Washington University
Abstract
Music catalogers have embraced in current cataloging the flexibility, intuitiveness, and expressivity afforded by the Library of Congress’s new faceted vocabularies. In order to realize the full benefits to discovery these vocabularies offer, however, methods for programmatically assigning faceted terms retrospectively to existing metadata for music resources are required in order to mitigate the costs of manual enhancement of legacy data. This article describes efforts to repurpose existing Library of Congress Subject Headings as faceted data, taking advantage of recent developments in the MARC 21 formats. Limitations inherent to this process and ideas for future directions are described.
Keywords
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH),
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT),
  • Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus (LCMPT),
  • Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT),
  • music cataloging,
  • controlled vocabulary mapping
Publication Date
January 7, 2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2018.1516709
Citation Information
Casey Mullin. "Amicable Divorce: Programmatic Derivation of Faceted Data from Library of Congress Subject Headings for Music" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly  Vol. 56 Iss. 4 (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/casey-mullin/15/