Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD): A Conceptual Model

✍ Scribed by Marcia Lei Zeng (editor); Maja Žumer (editor); Athena Salaba (editor); IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 80
• Series: IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control; 43
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a  place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval. The primary purpose of this study is to produce a framework that will provide a clearly stated and commonly shared understanding of what the subject authority data/record/file aims to provide information about, and the expectation of what such data should achieve in terms of answering user needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Members of the IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)
1. Background
2. Purpose and Scope
2.1 Purpose
2.2 Scope
2.3 Aboutness and Ofness
2.4 Method
2.5 Components of the Study
3. Entities
3.1 Diagramming Conventions
3.2 General Framework
3.3 Choice of Terms for FRSAD Entities
3.4 THEMA
3.5 NOMEN
4. Attributes
4.1 Attributes of a THEMA
4.2 Attributes of a NOMEN
5. Relationships
5.1 WORK-to-THEMA Relationship
5.2 THEMA-to-NOMEN Relationship
5.3 THEMA-to-THEMA Relationships
5.4 NOMEN-to-NOMEN Relationships
6. User Tasks
6.1 Users and Use
6.2 User Tasks
6.3 Assessing Values Relative to User Tasks
6.4 Mapping of Attributes, Relationships, and User Tasks
7. Conclusion
Appendix A. Modeling Aboutness
A.1 Subject Relationship and Group 3 Entities Introduced in FRBR
A.2 Possible Approaches to the Model of Aboutness
Appendix B. Relationship of FRSAD with FRBR and FRAD
B.1 Relationship of FRSAD with FRBR
B.2 Relationship of FRSAD with FRAD
Appendix C. FRSAD Model and Other Models
C.1 The Importance of the THEMA-NOMEN Model
C.2 Mapping the FRSAD Model to Other Models
C.3 Conclusion
Appendix D. Examples from Subject Authority Systems
D.1 Existing Models of THEMA Types
D.2 THEMA-THEMA Relationships presented in Subject Authority Data
D.3 Same THEMA Represented by NOMENs from Different Schemes
D.4 Examples of Display Records from Controlled Vocabularies or Subject Authority Files
References