Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)

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.

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Athena Salaba and Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University, Kent, USA and Maja umer, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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The main purpose of this report by the IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)  is to develop a framework that provides a clearly stated and commonly shared understanding of subject authority data, and how such data can facilitate user tasks.