DimensionComponent

Generalization is DataStructureComponent.

Superclass hierarchy

Definition

Role given to a represented variable in the context of a dimensional data structure to identify the universes associated to data points.

Examples

Explanatory notes

The categories from each dimension often are used to identify a cell. The meaning of the combination of the categories supplies meaning to the cell.


Subclasses


Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

categoricalAdditivity

True if Categories can be added together (collapsed together) to create higher level Categories. An example would be age categories. Five year age categories can be collapsed into 10 year age categories.

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Inherited Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

semantic

The semantic of the DataStructureComponent expressed as a PairedExternalControlledVocabulary.

PairedExternalControlledVocabularyEntry

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agency

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

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id

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

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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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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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localId

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

LocalIdFormat

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version

Version number of the object.

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versionDate

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

XSDdate

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versionRationale

Reason for making a new version of the object.

RationaleDefinition

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versionResponsibility

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

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Associations

Multiplicity

Association

Navigable Class

Multiplicity

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DimensionComponent_isStructuredBy_ValueDomain

ValueDomain

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Diagram

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