Core Faceted Subject Access Interest Group

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  • Hello, Thank you to those who attended today's FSAIG discussion about controlled vocabularies outside of Library of Congress. The list of non-LC controlled vocabularies that ...

  • Day : Monday, May 12th, 2025 Time : 2 - 3 pm Eastern / 1 - 2 pm Central / 12 - 1 pm Mountain / 11 am - 12 pm Pacific Zoom Link : https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/TR7x-YW-Touodb6Tw9HWcA ...

  • Just a friendly reminder: If you're interested in the co-chair role, please email a brief statement of interest to the current co-chairs by the end of your workday today, May 2. ...

  • Dear colleagues, As you have heard, the Library of Congress has paused work on its vocabularies due to the Library's system migration from Voyager to Folio. This includes ...

  • Day : Monday, May 12th, 2025 Time : 2 - 3 pm Eastern / 1 - 2 pm Central / 12 - 1 pm Mountain / 11 am - 12 pm Pacific Zoom Link : https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/TR7x-YW-Touodb6Tw9HWcA ...

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Purpose: Discusses the theory and applications related to subject terminology intended for faceted application, including FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), LCGFT (Library of Congress Genre/From terms), and others. Serves as a forum for users and others interested in the faceted approach to subject access to compare notes and discuss further developments and implementation of subject faceting for digital projects and related topics.

This interest group is part of Core's Metadata and Collection Section.