Process Module: Manage Entity Relationship
Definition: This module allows the creation, modification and deletion of relationships between any 2 or more entities. Entities can include resources, people, courses, facilities, organizations, finances, etc.
Workflow / Process Diagrams:
Use Cases: While this functionality is abstract, potential uses include:
- Creation of virtual collections. This would allow grouping of like resources whether they are a subset of a single collection or a grouping across multiple collections.
- This functionality could be used to link resources to academic courses managed in a learning management system.
- Bibliographic relationships. Create real, actionable links between bibliographic records. For example, these could be FRBR relationships or relationships expressed as linking entry tags in MARC21.
- Management of exhibitions. Manage exhibitions in an integrated way by linking resources, facilities and people.
- Relationships between people. For example, this would allow clients to be linked to experts.
- Circulating item. Create links between resources and the people who use them. These relationships could potentially be used in conjunction with bibliographic relationships to make recommendations to clients.
