Fwd: [SAC-FAST] History as form subdivision

[Stephen Hearn]

After going through a third or so of my records, I agree with Sherman that 
the assignment of terms to 650 vs 655 in FAST appears to be problematic. 
I've found a case where "Fiction" is tagged both ways on a single record, 
presumably because one used $x and the other $v, as well as scattering 
across records. There are also issues with form/genre terms that LC uses in 
650 which FAST has not attempted to tag 655. As for "History" and similar 
terms, e.g., "Criticism and interpretation," when such terms are removed 
from their original string, they begin to look a lot more like genre terms. 
How will FAST searchers know which category to look for these terms, 
especially when a conversion program is scattering them between 650 and 655?

Stephen

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>I've only looked at a few of my FASTed records and was surprised to
>find "-- History" being treated as a form subdivision. I do not
>remember a discussion in our group of this being form rather than
>topical. It was vigorously discussed around the time of the
>subdivisions conference in 1991, and I note that Lois Mai Chan's
>proposal paper on alternatives to subject strings codes "History" as
>form. Now, as a free-floating subdivision in LCSH, it's $x. Perhaps
>CORC made a variant decision.
>
>Anyway, it separates the "History" aspect from the topic.
>
>Examples: 821, 822
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>Ever onward .....
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>Sherman
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