BISAC Subject Heading code

ID bisac_subject_code

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Code of a BISAC Subject Heading, the subject scheme of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) that publishers, distributors and online booksellers in North America use to classify books. It is three letters for the main subject, such as FIC for fiction or SCI for science, and six digits for the heading within it. Headings are sorted alphabetically, and BISG recommends at most three headings for one book. The regexp is the Wikidata format of property P12164.

Categories: Publishing and print
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P12164
Quality: 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[A-Z]{3}\d{6}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
FIC009020	Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
SCI098020	Space exploration
ANT044000	Stamp collecting
OCC038000	I Ching
FIC00902 invalid	Five digits

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Код тематической рубрики BISAC	Код рубрики книжной тематической классификации BISG: три буквы раздела и шесть цифр.

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BISAC_Subject_Headings
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12164
doc: https://www.bisg.org/complete-bisac-subject-headings-list

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