On 11/6/2012 10:51 AM, Lundgren,Jimmie Harrell wrote:
>
> Is it an option to suggest that those adding "tags" might want to
> select from the FAST terms which were derived from LCSH and can
> enhance the consistency greatly? FAST was designed with the volunteer
> or student assistant in mind and has many strengths.
> http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast.html
I think that's a great idea. It would be easy to implement if OCLC
would provide an API for looking up FAST headings. I believe right now
they only have such an API in a non-production 'research' service.
Without that API, it makes it much more expensive to implement a usable
interface for the 'crowd' to 'tag' (ie 'catalog'!) with FAST terms.
FAST could be a really great resource, but it needs a bit more
centralized infrastructural support from someone, to have any chance of
realizing it's promise.
Received on Tue Nov 06 2012 - 11:26:59 EST