Feature №3
Internal relationships (other than Hierarchy) exist between LOC definitions in the same structure or framework.
Items are related in various ways to items in the same structure with relationships such as equivalence, prerequisite, is part/has part.
Please specify the relationships used.
InLOC examples
- The ASN uses Cross Subject references to establish relations between the statement being described and a statement in a separate subject of a document.
- The National Curriculum - Schools England associates topics (or specifiers) with intended learning outcomes (objectives).
- The Europass CV Competency Framework as defined in the HR-XML Application Profile support internal relations in order to link learning outcomes and professional experience evidences related to one of the competencies (or other any element of the CV/LP part such as educational background). The official Cedefop Europass schemas themselves are using subelements (in terms of XML schemas) to support such kind of internal relation between a Language competency and its related learning outcomes or professional experience evidence (including date of start and date of end).
InLOC treatment
Because of the lack of clarity in distinguishing between Internal relationships and External relationships, InLOC treats them as the same.
InLOC specifies several relationships to be used between LOCdefinitions and LOCstructures. InLOC uses LOCassociations of type LOCrel for this.
Any relationship that is not between LOCdefinitions and LOCstructures may be represented using a LOCassociation of different type.