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Functional Requirements for Authority Data

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Functional Requirements for Authority Records or FRAR is a conceptual entity-relationship model developed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) for relating the data that are recorded in library authority records to the needs of the users of those records and facilitate and sharing of that data.

It is an extention and expansion to the FRBR model, addding numerous entities and attributes.