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PCC Operations Meeting: FAST

Cynthia M. Whitacre

WorldCat Quality & Partner Content Department

OCLC

May 2014

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)

• Joint OCLC Research and Library of Congress project

• Provides a faceted version of the Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Available in various interfaces and downloadable versions

http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/

OCLC Research Report

• Released August 2013

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From the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes List at

http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/subject.html

fast Faceted application of subject terminology (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC)

The link takes you to fast.oclc.org

FAST has a code for use in MARC

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8 categories of facetsFAST Facet MARC 21 field

Chronological 648

Corporate Names 610

Events 611

Form/Genre 655

Geographic Names 651

Personal Names 600

Titles 630

Topics 650

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FAST authority record

LDR00000cz a2200037n 45 0001 fst01045141003 OCoLC005 20090914163117.0008 041024nn anznnbabn || ana d016 7_$a fst01045141$2 OCoLC040 __$a OCoLC$b eng$c OCoLC$f fast053 _0$a QL737.U56150 __$a Okapi450 __$a Okapia johnstoni550 __$a Okapia$0 (OCoLC)fst01045143688 __$a LC (2013) Subject Usage: 7688 __$a WC (2013) Subject Usage: 52750 _0$a Okapi$0 (DLC)sh 85094443

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Here’s an Okapi – a very interesting animal – known as a zebra giraffe.

650 _7 ǂa Okapi. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst01045141

Picture credit: Wikipedia

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FAST is authorized for use in PCC bibliographic records. The question before us is whether FAST alone can be used, without either LCSH or MeSH. BIBCO participants manual, Section 5.5 on Subject headings states:

BIBCO does not require its participants to use one particular subject thesaurus, genre/form thesaurus or classification scheme. BIBCO participants may utilize any classification or subject heading scheme recognized by the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data. The format identifies the thesauri in two places:

FAST and PCC

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1. MARC Fields 600-651, 2nd indicator:0 - Library of Congress Subject Headings 1 - LC subject headings for children's literature 2 - Medical Subject Headings 3 - National Agricultural Library subject authority file 5 - Canadian Subject Headings 6 - Répertoire de vedettes-matière

2. MARC Fields 600-651, subfield $2:• Subject Heading and Term Source Codes • Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes

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Questions and Discussion

Photo from Okapi Conservation Project webpage