Gemeente Groningen

Specifically in the context of relationships between entities and the metadata of an entity, a metadata element is said to contain a reference when its whole purpose is to store the unique system identifier of another entity.

• Relationships between entities are realised by one entity referencing the other.
• If a user is authorised to inspect both entities then the MCRS must allow the user to browse the relationship, from one to the other, in either direction. (disambiguation) MoReq2010® also uses the term "reference" in its more general sense.
• For example, most functional requirements have a "function reference" which is simply an index to the information model that allows the reader to look up the function definition matching the requirement.