Conceptual Models: FRAD and FRSAR Works in Progress

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Conceptual Models FRAD and FRSAR(Works in
Progress)

• by Dr. Barbara B. Tillett
• Chief, Cataloging Policy Support Office
• Library of Congress
• for Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services
  Librarians
• May 16, 2007

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Convergence in 1998

• FRBR the need to extend the model to cover
  authority data
• IFLA Working Group on Minimal Level Authority
  Records and ISADN
• International Conference on National
  Bibliographic Services

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FRANAR Working Group

• Functional
• Requirements
• And
• Numbering of
• Authority Records

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Working Group Members

• Françoise Bourdon
• Christina Hengel-Dittrich
• Olga Lavrenova
• Andrew MacEwan
• Eeva Murtomaa
• Glenn Patton

• Henry Snyder
• Barbara Tillett
• Hartmut Walravens
• Mirna Willer
• Tom Delsey
• Marie-France Plassard

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Terms of Reference

• To define functional requirements of authority
  records
• To study the feasibility of an International
  Standard Authority Data Number
• To serve as the official IFLA liaison to and work
  with other interested groups concerning authority
  files

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The Goal of the Model

• To provide an understanding of how authority data
  functions currently
• To clarify the underlying concepts to provide a
  basis for refining and improving on current
  practice in the future

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Functions of the Authority File

• Document decisions
• Serve as reference tool
• Control forms of access points
• Support access to bibliographic file
• Link bibliographic and authority files

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Users

• Authority data creators and reference librarians
• Library patrons

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Users User Tasks

• Authority record creators and reference
  librarians
• Library patrons

• Find
• Identify
• Contextualize
• Justify

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Bibliographic Entities
known by
Names and/or Identifiers
Controlled Access Points
basis for
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Entities attributes (1)

• Person
• An individual or a persona established or
  adopted by an individual or group
• FRBR, modified

• Dates of a person
• Title of person
• Place of birth
• Language of person
• Field of activity

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Entities attributes (2)

• Name
• A character or group of words and/or
  characters by which an entity is known
• FRBR, modified

• Type of name
• Scope of usage
• Dates of usage
• Language of name
• Script of name
• Transliteration scheme of name

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Entities attributes (3)

• Type of access point
• Language of cataloguing
• Script of cataloguing
• Source of access point

• Controlled access point
• A name, term, code, etc. under which
  bibliographic or authority record or reference
  will be found.
• GARR, modified

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Relationships (1)

• Work ? Work
• Derivative relationship
• Authorized heading
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
• Fall of the house of Usher
• See also reference
• For a musical composition based on this work
  search under
• Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Chute de la
  maison Usher

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Relationships (2)

• Person ? Name
• Real name relationship
• Authorized heading
• Orwell, George
• See reference tracing

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Relationships (3)

• Access point ? Access point
• Alternate script relationship
• Access point
• Gogol, Nikolaï Vasilievitch
• Access point in an alternate script
• ??????, ??????? ??????????

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Relationships (1)

• Work ? Work
• Equivalence relationship
• Derivative relationship
• Descriptive relationship
• Whole/part relationship
• Accompanying
• Sequential
• Shared characteristic

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Relationships (2)

• Person ? Name
• Real name relationship
• Pseudonym relationship
• Secular name relationship
• Official name relationship
• Earlier name relationship
• Later name relationship
• Alternative linguistic form relationship
• Other variant name relationship

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Relationships (3)

• Access point ? Access point
• Parallel language relationship
• Alternate script relationship
• Different rules relationship
• Etc.

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Whats Next?

• Worldwide review (second round)
• July 15 deadline for comments
• Publication of the FRAD model
• Recommendations for changes to existing IFLA
  publications

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FRSAR

• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority
  Records
• Co-Chairs Marcia Zeng, Kent State University and
  Maja umer, National Library of Slovenia

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Questions?