OtherMaterial

OtherMaterialType describes the structure of the OtherMaterial element, used to reference external resources. It includes citations to materials related to the content of the DDI Instance. This includes citations to such material, an external reference to a URL (or other URI), and a statement about the relationship between the cited OtherMaterial the contents of the DDI instance.

Properties

Name

Type

Description

TypeOfMaterial

CodeValueType

0..1

Designation of the type of material being described. Supports the use of a controlled vocabulary.

Description

StructuredStringType

0..1

A description of the referenced material. This field can map to a Dublin Core abstract. Note that Dublin Core does not support structure within the abstract element. Supports multiple language versions of the same content as well as optional formatting of the content.

Citation

CitationType

0..1

Bibliographic citation for the external resource.

ExternalURLReference

anyURI

0..n

Contains a URL which indicates the location of the cited external resource.

ExternalURNReference

anyURI

0..1

Contains a URN which identifies the cited external resource.

Relationship

RelationshipType

0..n

Reference to the item within the DDI Instance to which the external resource is related.

MIMEType

CodeValueType

0..1

Provides a standard Internet MIME type for use by processing applications.

Segment

SegmentType

0..n

Can describe a segment within a larger object such as a text or video segment.

SizeInBytes

nonNegativeInteger

0..1

Specifies the size of the file in bytes.

Lang

language

0..1

Language of the metadata describing the other material.

Properties Inherited from Versionable

Name

Type

Description

URN

string

1..1

Agency

string

1..1

ID

string

1..1

Version

string

1..1

UserID

UserIDType

0..n

Allows for the specification of identifiers other than the specified DDI identification of the object. This may be a legacy ID from DDI-C, a system specific ID such as for a database or registry, or a non-DDI unique identifier. As the identifier is specific to a system the system must be identified with the UserID structure.

UserAttributePair

StandardKeyValuePairType

0..n

A system specific user defined property of the object expressed as a key/value pair. As this is specific to an individual system the use of controlled vocabularies for the key is strongly recommended.

VersionResponsibility

string

0..1

Person or organization within the MaintenanceAgency responsible for the version change. If it is important to retain the affiliation between and individual responsible for the version and his/her agency, it may be included in this notation. This is primarily intended for internal use.

VersionResponsibilityReference

Agent

0..1

Reference person or organization within the MaintenanceAgency responsible for the version change, as described in an OrganizationScheme. If it is important to retain the affiliation between and individual responsible for the version and his/her agency, a Relation should be created between the individual referenced here and his/her organization. This is primarily intended for internal use.

VersionRationale

VersionRationaleType

0..1

Textual description of the rationale/purpose for the version change and a coded value to provide an internal processing flag within and organization or system. Note that versioning can only take place on objects owned by the specified DDI Agency. If you are creating a local instance of an object from another agency for current or future modification use BasedOnObject. If the changes being made result in what you determine to be new object rather than a version of a previous object, i.e. the change is too extensive to consider it a version of the existing object, create a new object and use BasedOnObject to provide a link to the object or objects that were a basis for the new object.

BasedOnObject

BasedOnObjectType

0..1

Use when creating an object that is based on an existing object or objects that are managed by a different agency or when the new object is NOT simply a version change but you wish to maintain a reference to the object that served as a basis for the new object. BasedOnObject may contain references to any number of objects which serve as a basis for this object, a BasedOnRationalDescription of how the content of the referenced object was incorporated or altered, and a BasedOnRationalCode to allow for specific typing of the BasedOnReference according to an external controlled vocabulary.

RelatedOtherMaterialReference

OtherMaterial

0..n

The inclusion of an existing OtherMaterial by reference. Use for any type of OtherMaterial not specifically addressed by an inline description for such as ExternalAid in QuestionItem.

VersionDate

cogsDate

0..1

Date of version using the union set BaseDateType. Duration should not be used in this field, even though allowed by the ISO format enforced by the parser.

IsPublished

boolean

0..1

Indicates that the maintainable will not be changed without versioning, and is a stable target for referencing.

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