Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)
Established: April 2005
Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) Final Report
Approved by the Standing Committee of the Classification and Indexing Section, June 2010.
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data Final Report (complete)
- FRSAD Final Report: Table of Contents
- FRSAD Final Report: Model
- FRSAD Final Report: Appendix A: Modeling Aboutness
- FRSAD Final Report: Appendix B: Relationship of FRSAD with FRBR and FRAD
- FRSAD Final Report: Appendix C: FRSAD Model and Other Models
- FRSAD Final Report: Appendix D: Examples from Subject Authority Systems
Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- Draft Report
This draft was sent for worldwide review in the summer of 2009, with a comments deadline of July 31. The comment period is now closed. The draft is available at http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/index.html or directly from http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/report090623.pdf (2,800 kb).
Terms of Reference
- Build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within the FRBR framework as they relate to the aboutness of works (Entities in Group 1 and Group 2 can be used as the subjects of works but further inclusion of them will depend on the outcomes of the work of the FRANAR Working Group),
- provide a clearly defined, structured frame of reference for relating the data that are recorded in subject authority records to the needs of the users of those records, and
- assist in an assessment of the potential for international sharing and use of subject authority data both within the library sector and beyond.
Roster
Committee Reports
Contact
Chair:
Marcia Lei Zeng
E-mail: mzeng@kent.edu
Maja Žumer
Athena Salaba
Last update: 29 July 2010