FAST at Cornell: an update

Faceted Subject Access Interest GroupALA Midwinter, Chicago, January 31st, 2015Chew Chiat NaunCornell University Library

The FAST Team

OCLC ResearchRick BennettEric ChildressKerre KammererEd O’Neill (since retired)Diane Vizine-Goetz

Cornell UniversityGary BranchChew Chiat Naun Steven FolsomSarah RossArdeen White

Cornell cataloguers for pilot: Yen Bui, Roswitha Clark, Sung Ok Kim, Yelena Kurbanova, Apikanya McCarty, Teresa MeiAlso: Frances Webb (Cornell Discovery & Access team)

Recap of Annual …

Previous talk at ALA Annual 2014 Motivations Discovery implications Cataloguing experiences Vocabulary development issues

http://connect.ala.org/node/132161/FASTatCornellwithOCLCResearch.pptx

Since last time …

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)

Cornell FAST project timeline

September 2013 Cornell makes initial inquiry to OCLC about genre/form algorithm OCLC announces plan to populate WorldCat with FAST

December 2013 ALCTS eforum on FAST

January 2014 OCLC and Cornell agree to FAST conversion project

February 2014 FAST cataloguing pilot commences

Spring 2014 Batch conversion testing Vocabulary development discussions (local extensions, problematic mappings)

October 2014 OCLC delivers converted records

December 2014 FAST adopted as minimal level standard Cornell finishes merging FAST headings into ILS records

January/February 2015 Test implementation of FAST in Blacklight

FAST vs LCSH

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A few FAST heading types (and some issues they raise)

Name headings: relationship to sources

Uniform titles: work entities Corporate headings: hierarchies Topical headings: subdivisions Event headings: implied facets

Name headings

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

Uniform titles: work entities

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

Uniform titles: works

Uniform titles: works

Organizations in ISNI

Corporate bodies: hierarchies

Topical headings

Topical subdivisions

Events: implied facets

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 event

Events as Classes

Closing thoughts

FAST and cataloguers Organizational issues

IT support Value of research-driven organization

Demo

Questions? Answers?