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To my understanding, FAST is a simplified subset of LCSH that is compatible with the LCSH dictionary. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast.html Am I wrong? If so, please let me know. It will take me about 10 minutes to change my app from FAST back to the official LOC API. Josh Welker -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API Do FAST headings match anything? I guess what I mean is, do you have data that uses FAST headings? If not, what is it matching? -Ross. On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Joshua Welker wrote: > I finished the project. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! > > I ended up using the OCLC Fast API > (fast.oclc.org/searchfast/fastsuggest) > rather than saving everything locally. Tracking down the entire LCSH > authority listing and parsing it into a simple data format was just > unwieldy. > > The search box I built suggests the LCSH terms from OCLC as well as > LibGuides and LibraryH3lp FAQ links. jQuery UI Autocomplete is used > for the suggestion functionality. The search box send actual searches > to EBSCO Discovery Service. You can see it below on our homepage: > > https://library.sbuniv.edu > > > Josh Welker >