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Dewey Translators Meeting23 August 2006

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council

Seoul, Korea

Dewey and FAST Geographic Headings

Diane Vizine-Goetz

Edward T. O'Neill

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What is FAST?

A rich controlled vocabulary based on the terminology of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

A simplified application syntax

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Principles of FAST

A faceted approach by categorizing headings according to their functions

Retains the richness of the LCSH vocabulary in a simpler application syntax

Provides a tiered approach to allow different levels of subject representation

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Sources of FAST Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Headings Assigned to Bibliographic Records in the WorldCat

Created Headings

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Current FAST Database

Personal name headings 510,095Corporate name headings 283,581Topical headings 412,709Geographic name headings 148,960Form headings 694 Total FAST authorities 1,356,039

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Terminologies Project

Provides access to enriched versions of controlled vocabularies, e.g., FAST Geographic headings with Dewey

Uses Web services to interact with vocabularies (machine-friendly)

Services provided through the Microsoft® Office (MS) Research task pane

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Geographic Authority Record

Dewey Table 2 numbers

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Links

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FAST Project

http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/fast/

Terminology Services Project

http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/

Dewey Services

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/