Conceptual Models: FRAD and FRSAR (Works in Progress)

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Conceptual Models FRAD and FRSAR(Works in
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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 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
• gtgt 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
• lt Blair, Eric Arthur real name

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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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FRSAR

• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority
  Records (FRSAR)A Conceptual Model of Aboutness

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The FRBR family

• FRBR the original framework
• All entities, focusing on Group 1
• FRAD Functional Requirements for Authority Data
• Focus on Group 2
• FRSAR Functional Requirements for Subject
  Authority Records/Data
• Focus on Group3

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FRSAR Terms of Reference

• to build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities
  within the FRBR framework as they relate to the
  aboutness of works,
• to 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
• to assist in an assessment of the potential for
  international sharing and use of subject
  authority data both within the library sector and
  beyond.