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In addition, we wanted to review how many catalog records may relate to a temporal or geographic subject heading.

DescriptionNumber and filters
Catalog records with geographic subject heading

3,220,876 (using field subject_geo_filing)


Catalog records with temporal subject heading959,900 (using field subject_era_filing)


(* Note the numbers above were retrieved 02/03/2022)

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  • 1,340,603 distinct Wikidata entities which use an LOC identifier.  (We used the property P244).
    • 51,864 Wikidata entities pointing to an LOC identifier starting with "sh" (i.e. subject heading)
    • 1,289,158 Wikidata entities pointing to an LOC identifier starting with "n" (i.e. name headings)
  • 1,342,872 distinct LOC identifiers designated for Wikidata entities (i.e. this many unique identifiers are found in the object position for P244
    • 51,824 LOC identifiers which start with "sh" i.e. subject headings
    • 1,290,993 LOC identifiers which start with "n" i.e. name headings

(*Note wikidata results were retrieved 2/3/2022)


We also used LCSH mappings from PeriodO which contain 1478 total mappings (as of 2/3/2022).