Identifiable

Class is abstract.

Superclass hierarchy

Definition

Basic object requiring identification. Elements of this type are versioned and provide administrative metadata properties.

Examples

Use for First Order Classes whose content does not need to be discoverable in its own right but needs to be related to multiple classes.

Explanatory notes

Used to identify objects for purposes of internal and/or external referencing.



Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

agency

Agency expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions.

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1..1

id

ID conforming to the allowed structure of the DDI Identifier and must be unique within the Agency.

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1..1

isPersistent

Default value is false indicating that the content of the current version may change (may be in development mode). Set to true when the content of this version will no longer change.

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1..1

isUniversallyUnique

Default value is false. If the id of the object was created as a Universally Unique ID (UUID) set to true.

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1..1

localId

Locally used identifier unique with a specified context, such as a variable name within a dataset.

LocalIdFormat

0..*

version

Version number of the object.

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1..1

versionDate

Date and time the object was changed expressed in standard ISO formats.

XSDdate

0..1

versionRationale

Reason for making a new version of the object.

RationaleDefinition

0..1

versionResponsibility

Contributor who has the ownership and responsibility for the current version.

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0..1

Inherited Properties

Associations

Multiplicity

Association

Navigable Class

Multiplicity

1..*

Identifiable_isBasedOn_BasedOnObjectInformation

BasedOnObjectInformation

0..*

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Diagram

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