IdentifiableType

Adds the attribute identifying this as an identifiable object as well as the MaintainableObject. All identifiable objects should provide their contextual information, the identity of their maintainable parent. The deprecated form of the URN contains all the information to identify and object and its context. A Canonical URN scoped to the Maintainable contains the ID of the Maintainable as part of its structure. To provide full contextual information use the MaintainableObject structure. The use of the Canonical URN scoped to the agency or the identification sequence alone requires the content of the MaintainableObject to provide full contextual information. All content of Identifiable is considered to be administrative metadata. Note that changes to the administrative metadata does not drive a change in the version of the parent objects. See DDI 3.2 Technical Documentation: Part I for further details.

Properties

Name	Type		Description
URN	string	1..1	The URN of the entity matching the DDI URN pattern associated with the value of the attribute typeOfIdentifier (Canonical or Deprecated).
Agency	string	1..1	This is the registered agency code with optional sub-agencies separated by dots.
ID	string	1..1	The ID of the object. This must conform to the allowed structure of the DDI Identifier and must be unique within the declared scope of uniqueness (Agency or Maintainable).
Version	string	1..1	The version number of the object. For the identifiable object this is the version number of its parent versionable at the point of creation or alteration of the non-administrative metadata of the identifiable. Versionable and Maintainable items increment their version number whenever the non-administrative metadata contained by the object changes.
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.

Item Type Hierarchy

• IdentifiableType

  • AccessType

  • ActionToMinimizeLossesType

  • AggregationVariablesType

  • AttributeType

  • AuthorizedSourceType

  • CodeType

  • CollectionEventType

  • CollectionSituationType

  • CoordinateRegionType

  • DataCollectionMethodologyType

  • DeviationFromSampleDesignType

  • EmbargoType

  • GeographicCoverageType

  • GeographicLevelType

  • GrossFileStructureType

  • GrossRecordStructureType

  • ItemMapType

  • LifecycleEventType

  • LocationValueType

  • LogicalRecordType

  • MeasureDefinitionType

  • ModeOfCollectionType

  • ParameterType

  • PhysicalRecordSegmentType

  • RecordRelationshipType

  • SamplingProcedureType

  • StandardWeightType

  • TemporalCoverageType

  • TimeMethodType

  • TopicalCoverageType

Relationships

The following identified item types reference this type.