Library Resources. Skokie Public Library Home Page. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) [OCLC - Activities] FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) is derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), one the library domain’s most widely-used subject terminology schemas. The development of FAST has been a collaboration of OCLC Research and the Library of Congress. Work on FAST began in late 1998 FAST has been developed in large part to attempt to meet the perceived need for a general-use subject terminology scheme which is: simple to learn and apply, faceted-navigation-friendly, and modern in its design.
The broad purpose of adapting the LCSH with a simplified syntax to create FAST is to retain the very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use. After full development, FAST has evolved into an eight-facet vocabulary with a universe of approximately 1.7 million headings across all facets.
Background Impact Details The FAST authority file contains over 1,700,000 authority records. searchFAST assignFAST FAST as Linked Data Outputs. FAST. RDA: Resource Description & Access | www.rdatoolkit.org. CLC Libraries and Instructional Services. Warren-Newport Public Library District - Online Catalog.