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Metadta update # 31 FRBR and a World Wide Metadata Collaboration

When I was at ALA MidWinter 2015, I attended the FRBR Interest Group meeting which was discussing the topic of whether or not FRBR was dead.   At the meeting, it was revealed that while some felt that BIBFRAME supersedes the FRBR model and makes it irrelevant, there are others who feel that FRBR is an essential model for teaching RDA and linked data concepts (at least as it relates to library data) as well as for using "cataloguer's judgement".  I tend to fall into the latter category of librarians.  At the end of the meeting, the conclusion was that the interest group should not fold and that FRBR still lives - although it is need of updating and enriching. I attended the same interest group meeting at Midwinter 2016 to find another discussion of FRBR and the new Library Reference Model (LRM).  As it turns out, some attendees were aware the LRM had been released a few months earlier but nobody who spoke seemed to be knowledgeable about the document contents beyond bein