FRSAD Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data

in its finalizing stages : a very brief report

Päivi Pekkarinen

Helsinki University Library Meilahti Campus Library -Terkko

IFLA FRSAR Advisory Group

Workshop on Conceptual Modelling for Archives, Libraries and Museums, Helsinki, 28-29 January 2010

Outline

1. FRSAD: The ”FRBR Family”FRBR-FRAD-FRSAD

2. FRSAR–Working Group Members Terms of reference FRSAD Model

3. FRSAD: some issues

1. FRSAD: The ”FRBR Family”

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records -

FRBR

Approved by IFLA in 1997 Published in 1998 Conceptual model of the ‘bibliographic universe’

IFLA. (1998). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final

Report. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for

Bibliographic Records. München: KG Saur.

http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-

records

1. FRSAD: The ”FRBR Family” FRSAD Context and time line

IFLA FRBR model1998 Working Group 1992, Review Groups Document: Funtional Requirements for Bibliographic Records,

final report 1998

Extension > IFLA-FRAD model 2007Working Group 1999 Document: Functional Requirements for Authority Data,

final report 2009

Extension > IFLA-FRSAD model draft 2009Working Group 2005 :

Document: Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data, final report targeted for 2010

1. FRSAD: The “FRBR family” framework

FRBR: the original framework

All entities defined,

Focusing on Group 1 entities FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority

Data

Focusing on Group 2 entities FRSAD: Functional Requirements for Subject

Authority Data

Focusing on Group 3 entities

1. FRSAD: The “FRBR family” framework

The entities are divided into three groups:

conceptualized “bibliographic universe”

• Group 1 entities are defined as the products of

intellectual or artistic endeavours:

work, expression, manifestation, and item • Group 2 entities are actors, those who are responsible

for the intellectual or artistic content, the physical

production and dissemination, or the custodianship,

of Group 1 entities: person, corporate body • Group 3 entities are the subjects of works, intellectual

or artistic endeavour

2 FRSAR – Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records Groups

Esbalished 2005

IFLA indexing and classification section

Members: Working Group

Marcia Lei Zeng, USA, Chair

Maja Zumer, Slovenia, Co-Chair

Athena Salaba, USA, Co-Chair, Secretary

Leda Bultrini, Italy

Lois Mai Chan, USA

Gerhard Riesthuis, Netherlands

Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC, USA

Ekaterina Zaytseva, Russia

2 FRSAR – Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records Groups

Members: Advisory Group

Victoria Francu, Romania

Jonathan Furner, USA

Hemalata Iyer, USA

Dorothy McGarry, USA

David Miller, USA

Liaison person: ALA SAC

Ed, O’Neill, USA

Liaison person: OCLC FRBR

Päivi Pekkarinen, Finland

Magdalena Svanberg, Sweden

Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress, USA

FRSAR Working Group -Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records

Terms of Reference

1. to build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within

the FRBR framework as they relate to the aboutness

of works,

2. 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

3. to assist in an assessment of the potential for

international sharing and use of subject authority data

both within the library sector and beyond.

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s29/wgfrsar.htm

FRASAD’s relation to FRBR

FRSAD Terminology

Thema:

any entity used as a subject of a work

Nomen:

any sign or sequence of signs (alphanumeric

characters, symbols, sound, etc.) by

which a thema is known, referred to or addressed

as

FRASAD Conceptual Model

FRSAD model: Work –Thema relationship

FRSAD model: Thema – Nomen relationship

The importance of the THEMA-NOMEN model for the subject

authority data is to separate what are usually called concepts

(or topics and subjects) from what they are known by

FRSAD and SKOS

FRSAD Model: Potential

Abstract conceptual model for subject authority data

- allowing any thema to be independent of any nomen, including any syntax that a nomen may use;

- independent of any implementation, or application, or language system

Potential for international sharing and use of subject authority data -matched e.g. to SKOS, OWL

Potential for building general and special ontologies

3. FRSAR Working Group – FRSAD Modelsummary and the future

FRSAR Working Group established by the IFLA 2005

Division IV Bibliographic Control and especially the

Section of Classification and Indexing

Supposed to finish its work 2010.

- First FRSAD draft July 2008:

Discussed at IFLA Québec, August 2008;

- Second FRSAD draft July 2009, world-wide review:

Comments discussed at IFLA Milan, August 2009,

Two FRSAR WG meetings in Kent, Ohio, autumn 2009;

- Third FRSAD draft will be released early 2010,

Final document targeted to be published

prior to IFLA Gothenburg, August 2010.

3. FRSAR Working Group – FRSAD modelsummary and the future

Some Issues:

- FRSAD model structure differs from those of

FRAD and FRBR:

thema considered a superclass including all

the entities of the FRBR three groups of

the conceptualized”bibliographic universe”

- Terminology: Thema – Nomen

New FRBR Review Group will be established 2010

to harmonize the three FR models.

Aknowledgements

This presentation is based on the paper given by

Marcia Lei Zeng and Maja Zumer at IFLA Milan 2009

on the work of the FRSAR

- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority

Records - Working Group:

"Introducing FRSAD and Mapping it with SKOS

and other models"

http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/FRSADZengZumerIFLA09.pdf

FRSAD Draft July 2009

http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/report090623.pdf

Acknowledgements

FRSAR Working Group Chairs

Marcia L. Zeng, Kent State University, USA

Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA

Maja Zumer, University of Ljubljana,

Slovenia

FRSAR Working Group and Advisory

Group members