Cornell Metadata Interest Group, October 31 st, 2014 Sarah Ross Steven Folsom, FAST Faceted Application of Subject Terms at CUL

OCLC Research Rick Bennett Eric Childress Kerre Kammerer Ed O’Neil Diane Vizine-Goetz Cornell University Gary Branch Chew Chiat Naun Steven Folsom Sarah Ross Ardeen White The FAST Team Cornell catalogers: Yen Bui, Roswitha Clark, Sung Ok Kim, Yelena Kurbanova, Apikanya McCarty, Teresa Mei CUL-IT/Discovery and Access Team: Especially Frances Webb and Pete Hoyt

Current Subject Faceting in Blacklight

Subject/Genre

September 9 th, Cornell contacts OCLC about 2001 publication September OCLC Announces project to enhance WorldCat db with FAST headings December , ALCTS eforum, OCLC offers to partner with a library to convert their LCSH. Cornell requests service. Spring OCLC and Cornell test Batch Conversions of Cornell Records Spring OCLC and Cornell discuss feedback on problematic mappings Spring OCLC and Cornell strategize methods for extending FAST Near Future- Merge FAST headings into Cornell MARC records Partnering with OCLC

Everything you need to know that’s set is here.

From Ardeen’s Procedure: the list of tags.

The searchFAST tool interface

Subdivisions that are permitted:

“ If a topic belongs to different facets, separate headings in each facet are assigned.” Geographic headings are their own facet, with some differences from LCSH. LCSH direct: Ithaca (N.Y.) LCSH indirect: ‡z New York (State) ‡z Ithaca FAST:651 7 New York (State)‡zIthaca‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst LCSH direct: Angkor (Extinct city) LCSH indirect: ‡z Cambodia ‡z Angkor (Extinct city) FAST: Cambodia‡zAngkor (Extinct city)‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst LCSH direct: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) No LCSH indirect. “This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision.” FAST: New York (State)‡zNew York‡zChelsea (Manhattan)‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst

Illustrating lots of FAST issues: (1) Subdivisions converting weird or not at all; (2) the new-look event headings, 611, and chronological headings, 648; (3) Biography and History as genre facets; (4) Politics and government = Political science?

How Friends and associates should have come out

Intolerables. LCSH, someday FAST: Description and travel Social conditions Economic conditions Politics and government Current FAST, someday gone: Travel Social history Economic history Political science

Everything was “Relations.” If it was LCSH: Relations Foreign relations Foreign economic relations Military relations NO LCSH EQUIVALENT Now it is FAST: International relations Diplomatic relations International economic relations Military relations Interfaith relations

“Local extensions,” to be picked up by OCLC if possible

Precise dates or a date range in 648?

046 element available for embedding

FAST can make you feel lazy and untalented. FAST can set you free to say what you want to say.

Community by facets: physical juxtaposition in a bounded medium.

How “Death and burial” should convert, eventually

Current Subject Mapping in Solr

Vocabularies for faceting – Most likely only use |2 fast, |2 fast/NIC, and |2 fast/naf – Could conditionally use $2 naf if there are no FAST headings since the literals would converge Conditional logic for item record display – Supress FAST from item view if LC authorities are available. A Tentative Solr Mapping For FAST

Before (Now) After Subject/Genre Gambling12 Casinos4 Minority business enterprises2 United States. Small Business Administration 2 Bildungsromans1 See more>> Subject: Region Nevada--Las Vegas28 United States2 Arizona--Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)2 See more>> Subject Era th century1 Projecting Progress: Facets Subject/Genre Gambling12 Casinos4 Minority business enterprises2 United States. Small Business Administration 2 Bildungsromans1 See more>> Subject: Region Las Vegas (Nev.)17 Nevada Las Vegas11 United States2 Arizona Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)1 Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.) 1 See more>> Subject Era 20 th century 4

Before (Now)After Projecting Progress: Item View

URI’s: What can they do?

One URI Can Get You Many

Some URI’s Lead to Real World Data

Use of URI’s *Out* on the Web

Use of URI’s *In* on the Web (Metadata Can Become a Library Resource)

Recap of Benefits Better designed terms and phrases for faceting (NO more ‘Relations’) Greater convergence of values in the facets Potential for parsing subject from genre Better control of subjects in minimal level cataloging Aligns with our linked data goals You can see how and where all famous people have been buried in one search

Final Steps… Batch Loading FAST (80K-100K bibs a night) FAST for MLC 7 pilot complete after Thanksgiving (then becomes standard procedure) Make proposed changes to Blacklight (when we have a critical mass of FAST in catalog) Meanwhile, evaluate headings as their added to anticipate any issues with final implementation.

For more information LTS Mimimal Level Cataloging Procedure, LTS FAST Procedure, Cornell FAST introductory presentation, 5/2/FAST_C%26M.pptx 5/2/FAST_C%26M.pptx CaMMS Faceted Subject Access Interest Group,