8.4 Relationships of a Manifestation

A relationship associates an instance of Manifestation with another instance of an entity.

Relationships can be implemented in many ways, depending on the purpose, the modelling paradigm, or architectural constraints of the chosen platform. These guidelines are intended to be data structure neutral.¹ Therefore, these guidelines cannot prescribe exactly how to demonstrate relationships. Instead they recommend that certain relationships be established without instruction on how precisely those links be made manifest.

A Manifestation may have relationships with the following:

• Agent(s)
• Event(s)
• Other Relationships
• Item(s)
• Work(s)
• Variant(s)
• Other Relationships

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1. EN 15907 8.1 Relationships. General ↩