CorrespondenceType

Describes the commonalities and differences between two items using a textual description of both commonalities and differences plus an optional coding of the type of commonality, a commonality expresses as a 0 to 1 weighting factor (expressing degree of comparability) and a user defined correspondence property which is specific to an organization or community of use.

Properties

Name

Type

Description

Commonality

StructuredStringType

0..1

Common features of the compared objects. Supports multiple language versions of the same content as well as optional formatting of the content.

Difference

StructuredStringType

0..1

Description of the difference between the compared objects. Supports multiple language versions of the same content as well as optional formatting of the content.

CommonalityTypeCoded

CodeValueType

0..1

A brief description describing the commonality of the two schemes/items, i.e., “Identical”, “High”, “Medium”, “Low”, “None”. Supports the use of an external controlled vocabulary. The DDI Alliance has provided a controlled vocabulary (CommonalityType) to support this element at http://www.ddialliance.org/controlled-vocabularies.

CommonalityWeight

float

0..1

A value between 0 and 1 expressing the degree of commonality (0 indicates none, 1 indicates that they are identical).

UserDefinedCorrespondenceProperty

StandardKeyValuePairType

0..n

An alternate means of expressing commonality within a specific system. A system specific user defined correspondence 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.

Relationships

The following identified item types reference this type.

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