Access and Authority Control

• Tillet's Taxonomy of Bibliographic Relationships

  • Equivalence Relationship
  • Derivative Relationship
  • Descriptive Relationship
  • Whole-part Relationship
  • Accompanying Relationship
  • Sequential Relationship
  • Shared Characteristic Relationship
• Important Concepts

  • Authority Control
  • Authorized Access Point
  • Authority Work
  • Authority File
• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)

  • A conceptual model for authority control
  • Produced in 2008; amended and corrected through July 2013
  • “…to provide a framework for the analysis of functional requirements for the kind of authority data that is required to support authority control and for the international sharing of authority data.”
• FRAD Entities

  • Person
  • Family
  • Corporate Body
  • Work
  • Expression
  • Manifestation
  • Item
  • Concept
  • Event
  • Place
  • Name
  • Identifier
  • Controlled Access Point
  • Rules
  • Agency
• Person


  An individual or a persona or identity established or adopted by an individual or group
• Person Selected Attributes

  • Gender
  • Place of birth
  • Place of death
  • Country
  • Language or person
  • Profession or occupation
• Family


  Two or more persons related by birth, marriage, adoption, civil union, or similar legal status, or who otherwise present themselves as a family
• Family Selected Attributes

  • Type of family
  • Dates of family
  • Places associated with family
  • Language of family
• Corporate Body


  An organization or group of persons and/or organizations identified by a particular name acting as a unit
• Corporate Body Selected Attributes

  • Language of the corporate body
  • Field of activity
  • History
• Name


  A character, word, or group of words and/or characters by which an entity is known
• Name Selected Attributes

  • Type of name
  • Name string
  • Language of name
  • Script of name
  • Transliteration scheme of name
• Identifier


  A number, code, word, phrase, logo, device, etc., that is associated with an entity, and serves to differentiate that entity from other entities within the domain in which the identifier is assigned

  • Attribute: Type of identifier
• Controlled Access Point


  A name, term, code, etc., under which a bibliographic or authority record or reference will be found
• Controlled Access Point Selected Attributes

  • Type of controlled access point
  • Status of controlled access point
  • Designated usage of controlled access point
• Rules


  A set of instructions relating to the formulation and/or recording of controlled access point (authorized forms, variant forms or references, etc.)
• Rules Selected Attributes

  • Citation for rules
  • Rules identifier
• Agency


  An organization responsible for creating or modifying a controlled access point
• Agency Selected Attributes

  • Name of agency
  • Agency identifier
  • Location of agency
• FRAD Entities and their Relationships

  
• Example of FRAD Entities and their Relationships

  
• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)

  • A conceptual model for subject authority control
  • Formed in 2005; approved in 2010
  • “…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.”
• FRSAD User Tasks

  • Find
  • Identify
  • Select
  • Explore
• FRAD User Tasks

  • Find
  • Identify
  • Contextualize
  • Justify
• FRSAD Entities

  • Thema
  • Nomen
• Thema


  Any entity used as a subject of a work
• Nomen


  Any sign or sequence of signs (alphanumeric characters, symbols, sound, etc.) that a thema is known by, referred to, or addressed as
• FRSAD Entities and their Relationships

  
• Example of FRSAD Entities and their Relationships