FAST update - American Library Association
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Faceted Subject Access Interest Group
ALA Midwinter, Chicago, January 31st, 2015
Chew Chiat Naun
Cornell University Library
OCLC Research
Rick Bennett
Eric Childress
Kerre Kammerer
Ed O’Neill (since retired)
Diane Vizine-Goetz
Cornell University
Gary Branch
Chew Chiat Naun
Steven Folsom
Sarah Ross
Ardeen White
Cornell cataloguers for pilot: Yen Bui, Roswitha Clark, Sung Ok Kim, Yelena
Kurbanova, Apikanya McCarty, Teresa Mei
Also: Frances Webb (Cornell Discovery & Access team)
Previous talk at ALA Annual 2014
Motivations
Discovery implications
Cataloguing experiences
Vocabulary development issues
http://connect.ala.org/node/132161/FASTatCornellwithOCLCResearch.pptx
FAST adopted as standard procedure for
minimal-level cataloguing
Retrospective FAST conversion and load
completed
Planning process for ongoing updates
Presentation to library staff in open forum
Initial implementation of FAST facets in test
environment (in progress)
September 2013
December 2013
OCLC delivers converted records
December 2014
Batch conversion testing
Vocabulary development discussions (local extensions, problematic mappings)
October 2014
FAST cataloguing pilot commences
Spring 2014
OCLC and Cornell agree to FAST conversion project
February 2014
ALCTS eforum on FAST
January 2014
Cornell makes initial inquiry to OCLC about genre/form algorithm
OCLC announces plan to populate WorldCat with FAST
FAST adopted as minimal level standard
Cornell finishes merging FAST headings into ILS records
January/February 2015
Test implementation of FAST in Blacklight
100 1_ $aBall, Susan C.,$d1957-$eauthor.
245 10 $aVoices in the band :$ba doctor, her patients, and how the
outlook on AIDS care changed from doomed to hopeful /$cSusan C. Ball.
505 0_ $a1992: Beginning -- 1992: So much to learn -- 1992: No easy answers
and little to offer -- 1994: Too many drugs, no medication -- 1994: Being
mindful of the subtext -- 1994: Weekend on call -- 1994: Christmas -- 1995:
Another support group -- 1995: Mothers and children -- 1995: Decisions and
revisions -- 1995: Colleagues and families -- 1995: So many stories and some
new faces -- 1996: Some hope in the despair -- 1996: Hit early, hit hard -1997: Amazing changes -- 1999: Despite our best intentions -- 1999: Coping
with a different paradigm -- 2000: Going home.
650 _0 $aAIDS (Disease)$zNewYork (State)$zNewYork$xHistory.
650 _0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xPatients$zNewYork (State)$zNewYork.
648 _7 $a1992-2000$2fast
650 _7 $aAIDS (Disease)$xPatients$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00793864
651 _7 $aNewYork (State)$zNewYorkǂ2fastǂ0(OCoLC)fst01204333
655 _7 $aPersonal narratives$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423843
655 _7 $aSocial history$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411634
Name headings: relationship to sources
Uniform titles: work entities
Corporate headings: hierarchies
Topical headings: subdivisions
Event headings: implied facets
Relationship of FAST to NAF, VIAF, ISNI (also
applies to works)
• On the other hand, how far is there a need for a
separate FAST authority?
• Enriching authorities
Hesitated to use initially because headings
did not match RDA AAPs
Headings available only at the FRBR work
level
Work attributes and relationships
Relationship to NAF, VIAF
Are there additional records or data that FAST
might scoop up?
Similar issues to name headings
Prompted by discussion in Kelley McGrath’s
paper, “Facet-Based Search and Navigation
with LCSH: Problems and Opportunities”
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/23
Her example is National Socialism—Germany
Similar issue with time facets
FAST and cataloguers
Organizational issues
IT support
Value of research-driven organization