Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD): A conceptual model, prepared by the IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) and edited by Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer, and Athena Salaba, was approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing in June 2010. This document reports on the response of the FRSAR Working Group to the terms of reference that were established for it in 2005: “build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within the FRBR [Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records] framework as they relate to the aboutness of works; 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.” The FRSAD report was published in 2011 by De Gruyter Saur as no. 43 in the IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control.
Members of the FRSAR Working Group:
- Leda Bultrini (ARPA Lazio, Italy)
- Lois Mai Chan (University of Kentucky, USA)
- Jonathan Furner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Edward O’Neill (OCLC, USA)
- Gerhard Riesthuis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Athena Salaba (co-chair; Kent State University, USA)
- Diane Vizine-Goetz (OCLC, USA)
- Ekaterina Zaytseva (Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Russia)
- Marcia Lei Zeng (chair; Kent State University, USA)
- Maja Žumer (co-chair; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
For more info, see also:
- Marcia Lei Zeng’s FRSAD site
- IFLA’s FRSAR site
- IFLA’s FRBR site
- William Denton’s FRBR blog