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11585	Wetherington, Corey; Wagner, Scott	A Comprehensive Approach to Algorithmic Machine Sorting of Library of Congress Call Numbers	2019-12-16	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6235	454	54	A Comprehensive Approach to Algorithmic Machine Sorting of Library of Congress Call Numbers This paper details an approach for accurately machine sorting Library of Congress (LC) call numbers number operates within the context of the entire string in order to determine how it should sort. precede a letter in one part of a call number (a '1' sorts before an 'A' in the classification portion, specific volume number and is to be sorted as an integer rather than a decimal. in the format of call number strings poses various practical obstacles for machine sorting. to sort what the authors refer to as the "base call number" (i.e., the classification and Cutter portion of the specification string following the Cutter, where the presence of ordinal and volumetype numbering is commonplace. program transforms the call numbers into normalized strings, which are then sorted and https://github.com/smu-libraries/lc_call_number_compare https://github.com/smu-libraries/lc_call_number_compare ShelfReader sort-key processing of a "double Cutter" call number and a nearby, single 	./cache/11585.pdf	./txt/11585.txt