Representing Entities And Characteristics Of Iranian Performing Arts Based On Ifla Library Reference Model (Ifla-Lrm)

IFLA-LRM is the result of consolidating three separate FR family models. The purpose of this paper was to represent Iranian performing arts characteristics based on IFLA-LRM. This paper is an evaluative survey. The research population comprised of 1368 performing arts records in NLAI. A checklist was used to gather the required data. The results showed that there is a good adaptation between performing arts resources with manifestation, item, nomen, agent, time span, and place entities of LRM. Also, the results showed that there were not accurate links from the work itself to its expressions. some gaps in identifying "works' of performing arts and their characteristics through LRM attributes, and relationships were observed. Although LRM has sufficient entities, attributes and relationships, Application of LRM to Iranian performing arts remains problematic. These problems may be explained by problems of considering performance as a work and library software problems in representing essential fields. Some amendments in work and expression levels and their attributes in LRM will be needed to better describe performing arts.