Dewey Translators Meeting 23 August 2006 World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council Seoul, Korea

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Dewey Translators Meeting23 August 2006World
Library and Information Congress 72nd IFLA
General Conference and CouncilSeoul, Korea

• Dewey and FAST Geographic Headings
• Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Edward T. O'Neill
• OCLC Research

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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 510,095 Corporate name
headings 283,581 Topical headings 412,709 Geogr
aphic name headings 148,960 Form 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

• OCLC Research
• FAST Project
• http//www.oclc.org/research/projects/fast/
• Terminology Services Project
• http//www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices
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• Dewey Services
• http//www.oclc.org/dewey/