Connecting to OCLC FAST

Overview

QA provides a wrapper around OCLC's FAST autocomplete service. The following subauthorities are available:

Prerequisites

No additional setup required.

Accessing via QA

Authority	assign_fast

Subauthorities:

• for search:
  
  • all
  • personal
  • corporate
  • event
  • uniform
  • topical
  • geographic
  • form_genre
• for term: TBD

NOTE: The linked data module for QA also provides access to this authority. It returns additional data including the URI for terms. See Using-the-Linked-Data-module-to-access-authorities for more information.

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Example search queries

Example search across all subauthorities:

/qa/search/assign_fast/all?q=periodic+table

The result includes both 'label' and 'value' to help users select the correct heading, e.g.:

[
    {
        "id":"fst01789629",
        "label":"Periodic table",
        "value":"Periodic table"
    },
    {
        "id":"fst01789629",
        "label":"Periodic table (Saunders, N.) USE Periodic table",
        "value":"Periodic table"
    },...
]

NOTE: The qa request is converted to the following OCLC FAST request. This is for information only. You do not need to know this to use QA.

http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/fastsuggest?&query=periodic+table&queryIndex=suggestall&queryReturn=suggestall%2Cidroot%2Cauth%2Ctype&suggest=autoSubject&rows=20"

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Example term fetch request

TBD

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Example list all terms

Not supported

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Documentation

Provide a link to the documentation that was used to build this connection to the authority.

OCLC documents their FAST API at... http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/fast-api/assign-fast.en.html