Transcript FAST update - American Library Association

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)
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Previous talk at ALA Annual 2014
 Motivations
 Discovery implications
 Cataloguing experiences
 Vocabulary development issues
http://connect.ala.org/node/132161/FASTatCornellwithOCLCResearch.pptx
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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)
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September 2013
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December 2013
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OCLC delivers converted records
December 2014
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Batch conversion testing
Vocabulary development discussions (local extensions, problematic mappings)
October 2014
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FAST cataloguing pilot commences
Spring 2014
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OCLC and Cornell agree to FAST conversion project
February 2014
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ALCTS eforum on FAST
January 2014
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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
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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
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Name headings: relationship to sources
Uniform titles: work entities
Corporate headings: hierarchies
Topical headings: subdivisions
Event headings: implied facets
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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
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Hesitated to use initially because headings
did not match RDA AAPs
Headings available only at the FRBR work
level
 Work attributes and relationships
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Relationship to NAF, VIAF
 Are there additional records or data that FAST
might scoop up?
 Similar issues to name headings
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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
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FAST and cataloguers
Organizational issues
 IT support
 Value of research-driven organization