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relationEntry -> targetEntity parts #7

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alexduryee opened this issue Feb 11, 2021 · 2 comments
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relationEntry -> targetEntity parts #7

alexduryee opened this issue Feb 11, 2021 · 2 comments
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@alexduryee
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The mapping from relationEntry to targetEntity is a bit odd - if there are multiple relationEntry elements (a la the Frankenstein), then they all get put into s of a single targetEntity.  I'm not fully clear on how multiple relationEntry elements were used (e.g. one-to-many relationships?), but it strikes me as something that should be split into multiple targetEntity elements.

@fordmadox
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targetEntity can only occur once in the current version of the schema, based on the Relations paper. In all of the real-world EAC 1 files that I've seen, though, I haven't stumbled across a single relation that used multiple relationEntry elements (the ones that I have seen so far included different name parts in relationEntry for the same entity, but not different entities). That said, it would be good to get a lot more feedback about the changes to the relations section during the call for comments.

@alexduryee: do you have any example relations that could demonstrate a use case for multiple targetEntity elements? I've thought of one, but haven't tried to encode those yet.

@kerstarno
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Additional thought: this might also be something to have a closer look at in the context of EAD. As I haven't seen that many real world examples of EAD3 yet that would be using <relations> I can't say for sure, but maybe the use of 1:n relationships would be more common in that context? E.g. if we were to use <relations> to point to related and/or separated material instead of using <relatedmaterial> and <separatedmaterial> respectively?

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