Demystifying FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data

ISBN-13: 9781598844962

134 pages • 7 x 10
 2012

This book provides a basic explanation of the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD): A Conceptual Model that helps readers create RDA authority records.

Authority control is essential for effective retrieval of resources, as it provides consistency in the form of access points used to identify persons, families, corporate bodies, and works. Current authority data lacks the flexibility in description that users expect for electronic and digital resources. Resource Description and Access, or RDA, is a new cataloging code that is based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the FRAD model, which will help catalog users to easily find all types of resources they need in the digital world.

RDA will be implemented by thousands of libraries in the United States and around the world. RDA streamlines the process of making library collections accessible through improved authority data, either on-site or virtually. Catalogers need to understand the FRAD model in order to create RDA authority records.

The first book of its kind, Demystifying FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data provides clear, applicable information to assist catalogers get up to speed by explaining the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD): A Conceptual Model. It illustrates the Conceptual Model for Authority Data with specific examples. It provides many specific examples that explain the FRAD entities, the attributes of those entities, and the relationships between those entities. This book also includes some brief RDA authority records exemplifying the major FRAD relationships.