13 Annex 3 – Data and Metadata Samples
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Accompanying this document is a set of sample files. These samples consists of structural metadata, data, reference metadata, and schema files for structured data and reference metadata. There are 4 basic sets of files. The details of each of these sets is described in the sections to follow.
13.1 Common Structures
Directory Name: common
Description: common structural metadata based on the content oriented guidelines Contents:
Name Description common.xml structural metadata, based on the content oriented guidelines; this is reused by many of the structural metadata files in the sample set sdmx_common.xsd XML schema file based on the structural metadata in common.xml; this is reused by many structure specific schemas in the sample set 13.2 ECB Exchange Rates
Directory Name: exr
Description: a set of 3 data structure variations and related data files demonstrating the various ways in which data can be organised
Contents: The contents are divided into 4 directories, each described in the sections to follow:
13.2.1 ECB Exchange Rates: Common Metadata
Directory Name: common
Description: common structural metadata utilized by each data structure definition Contents:
Name Description common.xml structural metadata; this is reused by the rest of the structural metadata files in the exchange rate sample set sdmx_common.xsd XML schema file based on the structural metadata in common.xml; this is reused by structure specific schemas in the exchange rate sample set 13.2.2 ECB Exchange Rates: No Group
Directory Name: ecb_exr_ng
Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with no groups defined; all attribute relationships are to specific dimensions Contents:
Name Description ecb_exr_ng.xml structural metadata, defining the data structure ecb_exr_ng_full.xml structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references generic/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xml data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xml data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_ng_ts_gf.xml data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xml data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_flat.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_ts_gf.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_ng_xs.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level 13.2.3 ECB Exchange Rates: Sibling Group
Directory Name: ecb_exr_sg
Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with a sibling group defined; only one attribute references the sibling group
Contents:
Name Description ecb_exr_sg.xml structural metadata, defining the data structure ecb_exr_sg_full.xml structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references generic/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xml data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xml data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_sg_ts_gf.xml data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xml data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_flat.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_ts_gf.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_sg_xs.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level 13.2.4 ECB Exchange Rates: Rate Group
Directory Name: ecb_exr_rg
Description: exchange rate structural metadata data and data with a sibling group and rate group defined; only one attribute specifies a relationship with the rate group, but the dimensions from the previous sample now declare the sibling group as an attachment group
Contents:
Name Description ecb_exr_rg.xml structural metadata, defining the data structure ecb_exr_rg_full.xml structural metadata, represents the same structure as ecb_exr_ng.xml, but does not use external referencing to make the file easier to load into tools which cannot resolve local file references generic/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xml data in the generic format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xml data in the time series-specific generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_rg_ts_gf.xml data in the generic format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level generic/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xml data in the generic format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xsd structure specific data schema for data structured with the currency dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_flat.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with all dimensions at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_ts_gf.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the time dimension at the observation level structured/ecb_exr_rg_xs.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the currency dimension at the observation level 13.3 Eurostat Demography
Directory Name: demography
Description: data and reference metadata, with accompanying structural metadata Contents:
Name Description demography.xml structural metadata, defining the data structure for demographic data demography_xs_ex.xsd structure specific data schema for demography data structured with the demographic measure dimension at the observation level demography_xs.xml data in the structure specific format, structured with the demographic measure dimension at the observation level esms.xml structural metadata, defining a much simplified variation of the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure; all of the new features of the metadata structure including the various target objects, the ability to reference multiple possible targets from a report structure and the ability to have more complex structures with repeating attributes, attributes with both sub content and values, and attributes with structured text as it content are included esms.xsd structure specific metadata schema for the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure esms_generic.xml sample reference metadata in the generic format, attached to the demography data, based on the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure esms_structured.xml sample reference metadata in the structure specific format, attached to the demography data, based on the Eurostat SDMX metadata structure
xhtml XML schema files for XHTML - included for reference from the structure specific metadata schema