1. IFLA LRM adopted! Top congress news!
Professional Committee endorsed IFLA LRM on Friday August 18 (1 week ago)
August 2017 version as presently on the IFLA site (posted around Aug. 5)
After IFLA the endorsement will be noted on the title page, no other changes will be done
Virtually identical to the Dec draft text released to RSC+

2. Details of last updates
Between March 2017 text (previously posted publicly and as submitted to CoS for approval) and August 2017:
Only addition of reference to Transition Mappings final document in bibliography (ch.8) and full title given at end of section 2.4
Addition of subtitle and summary on t.p.
Changes of paper size, font, page and line breaks, and the date

3. Changes after December 2016 (1)
LRM-R3 (Expression is embodied in Manifestation), reword definition to avoid "includes" as it is not whole-part
"links an expression with a manifestation in which the expression appears"
LRM-R18 (work has-part): removed an example
LRM-R23 (expression has-part): added an example of an audiobook with parts (only other example was music)

4. Changes after December 2016 (2)
Section 5.7 & 5.8: "An aggregate is a manifestation embodying multiple expressions" (removed word "distinct")

5. Changes after December 2016 (purely formal)
Changed dates to 2017
Section 1.1: adjustment to approval process as formal CATS approval not required
In LRM-E8 (Collective agent) definition, added missing italics on the word person
Table 4.4 Attributes: formatting of columns to allow longer lines in scope notes and examples
Section 4.3.4: Editorial in introduction before sorted table of relationships by domain

6. What's next? First on FRBR RG proposed action plan:
Revised FRBRoo version 2.4 to conform to LRM
Likely change title to LRMoo
Chain reaction will affect other extensions now using FRBRoo v.2.4
FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD considered superceded

7. Bibliographic standards landscape
Fitting together from conceptual model to other IFLA standards:
ICP revision relaunched
MulDiCat editorial will need to include LRM terms
ISBD review
Etc. Etc.

8. Some remarks about LRM
Entity-relationship means entities, attributes, relationships
How do user tasks fit in?
A model as distinct from a content standard
LRM is not meant to answer all questions
Cannot define cataloguing levels
Cannot specify rules, conventions, methods for recording data
Cannot address sources of information

9. Focus on attributes
lrm/ifla-lrm-august-2017.pdf