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Representation term

A representation term is a word, or a combination of words, that semantically represent the data type (value domain) of a data element. A representation term is commonly referred to as a class word by those familiar with data dictionaries. ISO/IEC 11179-5:2005 defines representation term as a designation of an instance of a representation class As used…

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Standards that use representation terms

National Information Exchange ModelGlobal Justice XML Data Model
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Pros of representation terms

EbXMLUDEFDimensional analysis
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Use cases for representation term

Property equivalenceProperty word ID
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Sample representation terms

NIEMGJXDM
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Representation term

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples139
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Representation term

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related to External links · 27
Representation term → Achieving Metadata Registry Content, Beta Representation Terms, Consistency, Core Components Technical Specification, Data, DOJ, Electronic Business Extensible Markup, GJXDM, IEC JTC, Interior, ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC TR, ISO/TS, Language, MDR, Metadata, MetadataBROKEN LINK, Naming, NIEM, Part
related to Pros of representation terms · 15
Representation term → Amounts, Code, Dimensional, GJXDM, Indicator, Many, Measures, NIEM, Representation, Representation Terms, Standards, Tools, UDEF, Use, XML
related to Example of representation terms as an XML suffix · 11
Representation term → Date, Family, For, Given, ID, In, Name, PersonBirthDate, PersonID, Representation, XML Data
related to Finding data warehouse dimensions and measures · 11
Representation term → Code, DateTime, For, Indicator, Measure, Number, OLAP, Representation Terms, Text, Value, When
related to Universal Data Element Framework · 11
Representation term → An, ID, IDs, Note, November, Property, Property Word, Some, This, UDEF, Universal Data Element Framework
related to Standards that use representation terms · 10
Representation term → Electronic Business, Global Justice XML Data, Justice, Markup LanguageThe US Government's, Model, National Information Exchange Model, Note, The US Department, This, XML
related to Finding equivalent properties · 9
Representation term → Code, Data Element, For, Gender, However, PersonGenderCode, PersonSexCode, Sex, When
related to Required fields · 8
Representation term → AND, BOTH, Data Element PersonBirthDateAndTime, For, If, PersonBirthDate, PersonBirthTime, Representation Terms
related to Inference · 7
Representation term → Data Element, Data Elements, For, ID, Representation Terms, The Representation Term, This
related to Core Components Technical Specification · 5
Representation term → In ISO, ISO, ISO/UN Core Components Technical, Specification, The

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representation data terms term element used elements class value example metadata standards xml iso type use universal set word suffix

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Representation termis aword0.90text
PersonSexCode the code suffix might assist the two systems to only match data elements that have the suffixinstance ofif system A has a Data Element such as PersonGenderCode and system B has a data element0.80text
PersonBirthDateinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
PersonBirthTime.Finding data warehouse dimensionsinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
measuresWhen creating a data warehouseinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
a business analyst looks at the Representation Terms to quickly find the dimensionsinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
measures of a subject matter in order to build OLAP cubesinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
the Universal Data Element Frameworkinstance ofand private sector as the basis for data modeling.Universal Data Element FrameworkSome informal standards0.80text
PersonBirthTimeinstance ofa separate data elements should be used0.80text
the Universal Data Element Frameworkinstance ofUniversal Data Element FrameworkSome informal standards0.80text
NIEM or GJXDM 3.0instance ofSample representation termsThe following are samples of Representation Terms that have been used for the exchange of electronic messages in systems0.80text
Codeinstance ofRepresentation terms0.80text

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