The second announcement, decided during the JSC meeting in October 2007, was to reconceptualize
RDA by incorporating the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD). FRBR was issued in 1998 by the
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). The aim of FRBR is to “produce a framework
that would provide a clear, precisely stated, and commonly shared understanding of what it is that the
bibliographic record aims to provide information about, and what it is that we expect the record to
achieve in terms of answering user needs.”11 Work on FRAD (then known as the Functional
Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records or FRANAR) began in 1999 and has a similar goal
to provide a common approach to thinking about authority data and builds on and broadens the FRBR
model.12