Cornell Metadata Interest Group, October 31 st, 2014 Sarah Ross str1@cornell.edustr1@cornell.edu...

Cornell Metadata Interest Group, October 31st, 2014Sarah Ross str1@cornell.edu

Steven Folsom, sf433@cornell.edu

FAST

Faceted Application of Subject Terms at CUL

OCLC ResearchRick BennettEric ChildressKerre KammererEd O’NeilDiane Vizine-Goetz

Cornell UniversityGary BranchChew Chiat Naun Steven FolsomSarah RossArdeen 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 9th, 2013- Cornell contacts OCLC

about 2001 publication

September 2013- OCLC Announces project to enhance

WorldCat db with FAST headings

December 11-12, 2013-

ALCTS eforum, OCLC offers to partner with a

library to convert their LCSH. Cornell

requests service.

Spring 2014- OCLC and

Cornell test Batch

Conversions of Cornell Records

Spring 2014- OCLC and Cornell discuss

feedback on problematic

mappings

Spring 2014- 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 IthacaFAST:651 7 New York (State)‡zIthaca‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst01205507

LCSH direct: Angkor (Extinct city)LCSH indirect: ‡z Cambodia ‡z Angkor (Extinct city)FAST: 651 7 Cambodia‡zAngkor (Extinct city)‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst01897045

LCSH direct: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)No LCSH indirect. “This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision.”FAST: 651 7 New York (State)‡zNew York‡zChelsea (Manhattan)‡2fast‡0(OCoLC)fst01726315

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 travelSocial conditionsEconomic conditionsPolitics and government

Current FAST, someday gone:

TravelSocial historyEconomic historyPolitical 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) AfterSubject/GenreGambling 12Casinos 4Minority business enterprises 2United States. Small Business Administration 2Bildungsromans 1

See more>>Subject: RegionNevada--Las Vegas 28United States 2Arizona--Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County) 2

See more>>Subject Era1970-1979 31978 120th century 1

Projecting Progress: Facets

Subject/GenreGambling 12Casinos 4Minority business enterprises 2United States. Small Business Administration 2Bildungsromans 1

See more>>Subject: RegionLas Vegas (Nev.) 17Nevada Las Vegas 11United States 2Arizona Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County) 1Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.)1

See more>>Subject Era20th 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, http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/pp/cat/22mlc

• LTS FAST Procedure, http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/pp/cat/127FAST

• Cornell FAST introductory presentation, http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/34435/2/FAST_C%26M.pptx

• CaMMS Faceted Subject Access Interest Group, http://connect.ala.org/node/132161