Ideas in this flowchart

• Foreign keys and references between records
• A foreign key stores an identifier
• The identifier belongs to another related record
• The foreign key represents a reference to a related record
• One record can point to another record
• The record can point to its parent
• The record can point to another associated entity
• These references allow software to use the relationships
• The software reconstructs structured information
• The result is structured information from related records
• These references also allow verification
• The software verifies the connections
• The connections are connections between records
• The verification determines whether the connections are valid
• Related records can be reconstructed and validated