Spanish National Research Council books

[aaferrari]

I recently discovered that the Spanish National Research Council (or CSIC for short) has several books to download but I have doubts about how to include it in the lists so I want to raise this here before adding something.
To begin with, the site has its own system of categories, which are:

CSIC category	LCCO equivalent
Archaeology and Prehistory	[CC] Archaeology
Arts and Architecture	[N] Visual arts or [NA] Architecture
Earth Sciences
History and Historiography	[D] History (General)
History of Science
Information and Library Sciences
Life Sciences
Linguistics and Philology	[P] Philology. Linguistics
Literature and Literary Criticism	[PN] Literature (General)
Philosophy and Religion	[B] Philosophy (General) or [BL1-50] Religion (General)
Popular Science
Science and Technology
Social Sciences	[H] Social sciences (General)

Besides that, the books are usually in one of these "collections" that can help to categorize them better:

Original name	Name in english	LCCO equivalent
BIHES (Bibliografías de Historia de España)	Bibliographies of Spanish History	[DP1-402] History of Spain
Cancioneros musicales de poetas del Siglo de Oro	Musical songbooks of poets of the Golden Age	[DP161-272.4] History of Modern Spain, 1479/1516- or [M] Music
Cuadernos de Trabajo de Flora Micológica Ibérica	Iberian Mycological Flora Workbooks	[QK] Botany
Cuadernos de acuicultura	Aquaculture Notebooks	[SH1-691] Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
Cuadernos rayuela: bibliografías sobre América Latina	Rayuela Notebooks: Bibliographies on Latin America
Estudios sobre la Ciencia	Science Studies
FOTCIENCIA	A word game that combines photography and science	[TR624-835] Applied photography, [ZA4650-4675] Information resources (General) > Pictures. Photographs or any other that corresponds to scientific photography
Fauna ibérica	Iberian fauna	[QL] Zoology
Monografies de l'Institut d'Investigació en Intel-ligencia Artificial	Monographies of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute	[Q300-390] Cybernetics
Monumentos de la Música Española	Monuments of Spanish Music	[DP161-272.4] History of Modern Spain, 1479/1516-
Publicaciones científicas y tecnológicas de la Fundación Observatorio Español de Acuicultura	Scientific and technological publications of the Spanish Aquaculture Observatory Foundation	[SH1-691] Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
Ruizia. Monografías del Real Jardín Botánico	Ruizia. Monographs of the Royal Botanical Garden	[QK] Botany

As you can see, there are categories and collections of which I am not sure which is their equivalent in the LCCO system classification so I would appreciate any help or correction on this.

Another question I have is about how I should add the books. Seeing the list of books in English would normally be something like this:

• Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). Opera Omnia. Volumen III. Motetes I-XXII - Francisco Guerrero, José María Llorens Cisteró, Karl H. Müller-Lancé (PDF)

Although I think the most appropriate would be this way:

• Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). Opera Omnia. Volumen III. Motetes I-XXII - Francisco Guerrero, José María Llorens Cisteró, Karl H. Müller-Lancé (PDF)

All the books are in pdf to download so the first link goes to the CSIC description page and the second is the pdf itself, what do you think? I see that this was also discussed in #10 but there does not seem to be a clear consensus on this.

Other particularities I have noticed are:

• The books that are in several languages: In these cases it seems that you can only download the Spanish version, so I would like the users of non-Spanish speaking countries to try downloading one of these books to see if it is really that way or if the language of the book depends on the location of the user and/or the language of the browser/system.
• Of the more than 400 books available, 139 have two or more categories.
• Some books have names in English even when they are only available in Spanish.

If someone wants to do tests I made a script to extract the data from those books and a dump in JSON with the generated information.

[eshellman]

Welcome @aaferrari! The reason we use LC classifications is that when there is question, we can just look up the book or classification in a library database - LOC. So, for example books on Mycology https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=Mycology&new=true&st= are classified in 'SB' or 'QR' in addition to 'QK'. We're not classification experts so use of a third party classification is needed.

The listing style (and the linter) is inherited from free-programming-books. There are many free books that are HTML or available in multiple formats. I prefer fewer links per book because every link adds to maintenance overhead.

the JSON dump looks useful!