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From the TC 372 Workshop Compendium
The Agent entity
The Agent entity was deliberately left underspecified in EN 15907. This decision was made in order to facilitate interoperability among filmographic information systems with different data models.
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Many bibliographic (and filmographic) database systems have used (and some are still using) a so-called flat file model. This is a model without many-to-many relationships (e.g. a person related to multiple works and a work related to multiple persons). Data from flat-file systems typically has text fields filled with personal or corporate names, where the field name (or MARC tag number) represents the relationship with the work. Data from such systems can be translated straightforwardly into an EN 15907 data structure by using the Agent Name and Activity elements of an Agent Relationship |