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You see a diagrammatic overview of EDM4hep with all the available data types,
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broadly organized into different categories. The arrows depict two ways data
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- types can be related / associated with each other
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+ types can be related / linked with each other
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- [ "Relations"] ( #relations ) (black arrows)
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- - [ "Associations "] ( #associations ) (purple-ish arrows)
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+ - [ "Links "] ( #links ) (purple-ish arrows)
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#### Relations
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These are relations defined within the data types, and which are directly
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usually not hold. For example, a ` ReconstructedParticle ` can point to multiple
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` Tracks ` or ` Clusters ` , but those do not point to a ` ReconstructedParticle ` .
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- #### Associations
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+ #### Links
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These are relations that are in a sense "external" to the data model definition.
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They are currently mainly used to connect MC and RECO information, as a direct
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link via a relation is not desirable as it would mix the two worlds. In contrast
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- to relations, associations are not directed, i.e. it is possible to access both
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- involved objects from the association .
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+ to relations, links are not directed, i.e. it is possible to access both
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+ involved objects from the link .
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### The table of available types
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Just below the diagram is an overview table of all the types that are defined in
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EDM4hep. Here they are organized into
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- - ` Components ` - very simple types, that are used throughout the
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+ - ` Components ` - Very simple types, that are used throughout the ` Datatypes `
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- ` Datatypes ` - The data types that are defined in EDM4hep
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- - ` Association ` - The available associations between different data types
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+ - ` Links ` - The available links between different data types
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+ - ` Generator related (meta-)data ` - Data types related to generator metadata
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+ - ` Interfaces ` - Abstractions for accessing different types by a shared set of properties
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![ ] ( images/doxygen_type_table.png )
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