Abstract
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) is a new conceptual model developed by IFLA's Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR). For three decades, IFLA has continuously made contributions to international authority control and FRAD is the extended model of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Like FRBR, FRAD describes an entity-relational model, with a different focus on the entities related to authority data. The undoubted significance of FRAD is demonstrated by its being the conceptual foundation for RDA (replacing AACR2R) and IFLA's International Cataloguing Code (ICC) in the near future. If the cataloguing rules in Taiwan would work toward the goal of building and sharing records with the world, Chinese Cataloguing Rules (CCR) will have to incorporate the concepts of FRBR and FRAD in its future development. FRBR is relatively familiar for many users in Taiwan, while FRAD has not yet prevailed at its preliminary stage of promotion. In view of the newly emerging model of FRAD, this study makes use of online resources to trace the historical backgrounds, basic concepts, and general comments on FRAD, with an expectation to provide references for the future revision of CCR. Although the conceptual model of FRAD has not yet thoroughly established, its future development and possible applications deserve our attention.
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