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Anthropology Cataloging Q&A
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If you have any comments or suggestions about these informational postings, or any questions on cataloging which you would like answered, please send them to the Subject and Bibliographic Access Committee. The Committee is always looking for more questions for this monthly column. What is the difference between LCSH & FAST? OCLC is developing FAST especially for application to web resources. The system is based on LCSH but is intended to be easier to apply. FAST vocabulary could be applied to resources by non-catalogers who are not familiar with LCSH subject strings. Resource discovery is still through a controlled vocabulary in FAST. FAST is important today, because there is talk of using FAST for the cataloging of all materials in the near future. FAST relationship to LCSHCharacteristics of the FAST systemThe relationship of the new vocabulary to LCSH is the following: LCSH strings are broken into separate headings by type of component: topical, geographic, chronological, and form. Topical Facet: In FAST, Topical for events, may be broken also into components Topical headings: LCSH: 651 0 Mexico $x History $y European Intervention, 1861-1867 It would be broken three FAST headings FAST: Topical : History $x European intervention LCSH topical components that are not precoordinated will be congruent with FAST headings (e.g., Astronauts) Geographic Facet: The FAST geographic headings can also be subdivided but only by other geographic headings. The headings should cover the entire area of the item being described. Note that some geographic headings are part of the “aboutness” or topic of the item. Geographic headings: FAST: Topical : Naxi (Chinese people) $x Social conditions Geographic components would all be converted to indirect, generally under the smallest level in which they are fully contained that correspond to levels in the MARC Geographic Area Codes list. This list a cataloging tool maintained by MARC, Machine Readable Cataloging. The levels are usually the name of a country or state. Some geographics may not have corresponding authority records if they have not been used in bibliographic records in WorldCat. Geographic headings: FAST: Geographic: Texas $z King Ranch Geographic headings: LCSH: 651 0 Kenwood ( Chicago, Ill.) FAST: Geographic: Illinois $z Chicago $z Kenwood Chronological Facet: Chronological headings: FAST: Topical : War of the Mascates Chronological components would be converted to all numeric (e.g., 18 th century would become 1700-1799; 20th century would become 1900-1999). LCSH: 651 0 Ghana $x History $y 20th century. FAST: Chronological : 1900-1999 Form Facet: LCSH: 650 0 Short stories, American $v Translations into Chinese. FAST: Topical : Short stories, American Names Facets: Name headings: LCSH: 600 0 Zhou, Zuomin, $ d 1822-1955 $x Family FAST: Personal : Zhou, Zuomin, $ d 1822-1955 LCSH: 610 0 United States. $ b Immigration and Naturalization Service $x Evaluation FAST: Corporate: United States . $ b Immigration and Naturalization Service Some other kinds of Differences between LCSH and FAST include: “Politics and government” as a subdivision in LCSH is change to “Political science” in FAST “Appropriations and expenditures” as a subdivision in LCSH is change to “Expenditures, Public ” in FAST “Exhibitions” as a subdivision in LCSH is change to “Catalogs $v Exhibition catalogs” in FAST “ Columbia River Watershed” and Pacific Coast (U.S.) were translated to FAST with “ United States ” as the main geographic heading. “Library” as a subdivision in LCSH is change to “Libraries” in FAST “Study and teaching (Higher)” as a subdivision in LCSH is change to “Higher education” in FAST Please note that The FAST project is still in its planning stage, OCLC and the ALCTS CCS committee are working on a FAST manual. So for they have established total 1,356,039 FAST authorities . |