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1 +Agency scheme|Hierarchy|Maintenance agency|Statistical data and metadata exchange|Structural metadata
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2 2  {{toc/}}
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5 -All [[structural metadata>>doc:Glossary.Structural metadata.WebHome]] in [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is owned and maintained by a [[maintenance agency>>doc:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] (Agency identified by agencyID in the schemas). It is vital to the integrity of the [[structural metadata>>doc:Glossary.Structural metadata.WebHome]] that there are no conflicts in agencyID. In order to achieve this [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] adopts the following rules:
5 +All [[structural metadata>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Structural metadata.WebHome]] in [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is owned and maintained by a [[maintenance agency>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] (Agency identified by agencyID in the schemas). It is vital to the integrity of the [[structural metadata>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Structural metadata.WebHome]] that there are no conflicts in agencyID. In order to achieve this [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] adopts the following rules:
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7 -1. Agencies are maintained in an [[Agency Scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] (which is a sub class of Organisation Scheme)
8 -1. The [[maintenance agency>>doc:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] of the [[Agency Scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] must also be declared in a (different) [[Agency Scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]].
9 -1. The “top-level” agency is [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] and this [[agency scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] is maintained by [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]].
10 -1. Agencies registered in the top-level scheme can themselves maintain a single [[Agency Scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is an agency in the [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] [[agency scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. Agencies in this scheme can themselves maintain a single [[Agency Scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] and so on.
11 -1. The AgencyScheme cannot be versioned and so take a default [[version>>doc:Glossary.Version.WebHome]] number of 1.0 and cannot be made “final”.
7 +1. Agencies are maintained in an [[Agency Scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] (which is a sub class of Organisation Scheme)
8 +1. The [[maintenance agency>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] of the [[Agency Scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] must also be declared in a (different) [[Agency Scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]].
9 +1. The “top-level” agency is [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] and this [[agency scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] is maintained by [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]].
10 +1. Agencies registered in the top-level scheme can themselves maintain a single [[Agency Scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is an agency in the [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] [[agency scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. Agencies in this scheme can themselves maintain a single [[Agency Scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]] and so on.
11 +1. The AgencyScheme cannot be versioned and so take a default [[version>>path:/xwiki/wiki/sdmx/get/Methodology/SDMX%202.1%20Standards.%20Section%206.%20Technical%20Notes/4%20General%20Notes%20for%20Implementers/?sheet=CKEditor.ResourceDispatcher&outputSyntax=plain&language=en&type=doc&reference=Glossary.Version.WebHome&typed=true]] number of 1.0 and cannot be made “final”.
12 12  1. There can be only one AgencyScheme maintained by any one Agency. It has a fixed Id of AgencyScheme.
13 -1. The format of the agency identifier is agencyId.agencyID etc. The top-level agency in this identification mechanism is the agency registered in the [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] [[agency scheme>>doc:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. In other words, [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is not a part of the hierarchical ID structure for agencies. [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is, itself, a [[maintenance agency>>doc:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]].
13 +1. The format of the agency identifier is agencyId.agencyID etc. The top-level agency in this identification mechanism is the agency registered in the [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] [[agency scheme>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Agency scheme.WebHome]]. In other words, [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is not a part of the hierarchical ID structure for agencies. [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]] is, itself, a [[maintenance agency>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]].
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15 15  This supports a hierarchical structure of agencyID.
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21 21  **Figure 5: Example of Hierarchic Structure of Agencies**
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23 -Each agency is identified by its full [[hierarchy>>doc:Glossary.Hierarchy.WebHome]] excluding [[SDMX>>doc:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]].
23 +Each agency is identified by its full [[hierarchy>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Hierarchy.WebHome]] excluding [[SDMX>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Statistical data and metadata exchange.WebHome]].
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25 25  The XML representing this structure is shown below.
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35 35  **Figure 7: Example Showing Use of Agency Identifiers**
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37 -Each of these [[maintenance agencies>>doc:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] has an identical Codelist with the Id CL_BOP. However, each is uniquely identified by means of the hierarchic agency structure.
37 +Each of these [[maintenance agencies>>doc:sdmx:Glossary.Maintenance agency.WebHome]] has an identical Codelist with the Id CL_BOP. However, each is uniquely identified by means of the hierarchic agency structure.
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