DimensionalDataStructure

Generalization is Identifiable.

Superclass hierarchy

Definition

Collection of dimensions that can be reused across multiple dimensional structures.

Examples

Sex, Province and Marital Status is a common set of dimensions used across a variety of dimensional data structures and might need to be maintained separately.

Explanatory notes


Subclasses


Properties

A linguistic signifier. Human understandable name (word, phrase, or mnemonic) that reflects the ISO/IEC 11179-5 naming principles. If more than one name is provided provide a context to differentiate usage.

Inherited 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.

:ref:``

1..1

id

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

:ref:``

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.

:ref:``

1..1

isUniversallyUnique

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

:ref:``

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.

:ref:``

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.

:ref:``

0..1

Associations

Multiplicity

Association

Navigable Class

Multiplicity

0..*

DimensionalDataStructure_has_DimensionComponent

DimensionalDataStructure

0..1

TBD

Diagram

TBD