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Karen, this is a very ignorant question: have your Syriac scholars tacked the question of relationships between the named people in their project? Did they use their own database? Ignore this if it is utterly ridiculous. Jen via mobile On Feb 12, 2013, at 16:12, "Nathan Gibson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We have data for about 1500 persons we want to get into EAC and be editable by a team of people. We want to include a fair amount of relational data to places, other persons, etc. > > I'd be interested in opinions on how efficient it is to maintain these relationships directly in the XML files vs. using a relational database to export the EAC records with their relationships. For example, if person A has a relationship with person B, does that relationship need to be included in the EAC files for both persons (under cpfRelation)? If so, I assume that creating, modifying, or deleting that relationship would need to be done in both records. This is where I wonder whether a relational database is more efficient. > > Thanks, > Nathan