Classifying Provinces

FAST, drawn from LCSH, privileges US, Canada, Australia, and UK provinces as first level headings; it has some nice rules for distinguishing say Cold Lake

the city from Cold Lake the lake, but these are unnecessary if lakes and cities are coded differently. FAST tries to code geographic entries for feature type. Note we will need rules to deal with mergers, separations, and name changes. FAST uses latest name for name changes, with ‘use’ on former. Need to say ‘see

also’ to deal with mergers etc.