[topicmapmail] FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) (fwd)

[Stringer-Hye, Suellen]

Murray,

The prototype database for this project seems to be available here.

<http://fast.oclc.org/>

The statement says it is not yet ready for "prime time" though I 
would hope it would be soon.

---Suellen

--On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:34 PM +0100 Murray Altheim 
<m.altheim@open.ac.uk> wrote:

> Stringer-Hye, Suellen wrote:
>> FYI....
>>
>>
>> ************************************************************
>> A very interesting article for anyone who cares about faceted
>> classification:
>>
>> http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/010e-ONeill_Mai-Chan.pdf
>
> Suellen,
>
> You wouldn't happen to know if the Library of Congress Subject
> Headings (LCSH) mentioned in the paper is publicly available,
> would you? I'm actually planning a paper on use of FC in XTM,
> hopefully to be available this fall (that and the rest of the
> stuff on the pile...).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Murray
>
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Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu