[SAC-FAST] FAST in New Orleans

[Lundgren,Jimmie Harrell]

Dear FAST Subcommittee and FSAIG Interest Group,
Our meeting in New Orleans will be Friday, June 24 at 4 PM, HIL Grand Blrm A.

The first item on the tentative agenda will be Ed O'Neill's update on FAST.

The second item will be an exploration of how the facets as identified in FAST are being dealt with in some of the discovery systems and "next gen" catalogs. I have begun looking at this and will very much appreciate if each of you will spend some time experimenting and making observations also. Please select one or more of these systems and perform some searches to observe how chronological, geographical, genre/form and topical concepts are (or are not) made available to users as facets. If a cloud is presented, how well do these facet concepts appear? This will prepare us for what I think will be an interesting discussion. If you know that some of these include FAST records, so please make note of the impact of the FAST headings in retrieval or limit options.

Please let me know if you have problems finding systems to explore.
Here are some Discovery Systems or Next-Gen's:
EBSCO Discover  http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-about with sites at Mississippi State at http://library.msstate.edu/  and University of Liverpool at http://library.liv.ac.uk/

WorldCat Local http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/default.htm with sites at U Wash at http://www.lib.washington.edu/ and MIT at http://mit.worldcat.org/

Summon http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/ with sites at Arizona State at http://lib.asu.edu/one and Dartmouth at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/find/summon/

Primo Central http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoCentral with site at Vanderbilt at http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1307454561075&vid=VANDERBILT&fromLogin=true

Mango Catalog from FCLA (formerly Endeca-based, now based on Solr/Lucene) at http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu/uf.jsp or
Mango over Primo Central site at USF http://testcat.fcla.edu/discovery/sf.jsp

Please let me know if you have suggestions for additions to the agenda or other systems examples, etc. you'd like to share.

This will actually be the final meeting of the FAST Subcommittee, and the FSAIG Interest Group will have its first meeting at Midwinter 2012.

I am looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans. Thank you in advance for your participation in this project and discussion. If you are unable to attend but have comments or observations to share, please send them by email.

Thanks and have a great day,
Jimmie


Jimmie Lundgren
Associate Chair & Contributed Cataloging Unit Head
Cataloging & Metadata Dept.
Smathers Library
PO Box 117004
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7004
352-273-2725
352-392-7365 (fax)
jimlund at ufl.edu


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Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:54 PM
To: sac-fast at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [SAC-FAST] FAST Subcommittee, Midwinter '11

The FAST Subcommittee will meet Friday, Jan. 7, 4-5:15 PM, MAR-Coronado. Here is a draft agenda.

1. General review and discussion of FAST by Ed O'Neill.  He said, "With the publication of the book (and distribution to the subcommittee members), FAST is now fairly well documented.  Some of the underlying concepts upon which FAST was developed are bound to generate comments/criticism/questions.  While the book is new and with the subcommittee planning to transition to an interest group, this would be an ideal time to have a general review of FAST.  It would certainly be helpful for us to get feedback regarding what we did right, what we did wrong, what we should change, and where to go from here."
2. MapFAST is now up and publicly available at http://fast.oclc.org/MapFAST/.  It seems to be generating a lot of interest and we will have a brief demo and discussion.
3. The transition to an Interest Group with broader focus will be discussed, and those present will be able to sign the application to be presented to CCS Exec. I will bring the printed application with the charge we agreed upon this fall for signing.
4. Selection of the first person to serve as Chair of the new Interest Group.

Since I didn't know if the Interest Group being formed would have time to schedule a meeting, I went ahead and scheduled as the FAST Subcommittee so that a time and place could be established to meet in New Orleans in June.

Thanks Ed, for the copy of the FAST book!

Please send comments or suggestions. Thanks and best regards,
Jimmie

Jimmie Lundgren
Associate Chair & Contributed Cataloging Unit Head
Cataloging & Metadata Dept.
Smathers Library
PO Box 117004
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7004
352-273-2725
352-392-7365 (fax)
jimlund at ufl.edu




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