Download or read book Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) written by Marcia Lei Zeng and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.