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29 29  1. There is no explicit indication on the Concept whether it is a 'role' concept.
30 30  1. Therefore, any concept in any concept scheme is capable of being a 'role' concept.
31 31  1. It is the responsibility of Agencies to ensure their community knows which concepts in which concept schemes play a 'role' and the significance and interpretation of this role. In other words, such concepts must be known by applications, there is no technical mechanism that can inform an application on how to process such a 'role'.
32 -1. If the concept referenced in the Concept Identity in a DSD component (Dimension, Measure Dimension, Attribute) is contained in the concept scheme containing concept roles then the DSD component could play the role implied by the concept, if this is understood by the processing application.
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33 +1. If the concept referenced in the Concept Identity in a DSD component (Dimension, Measure Dimension, Attribute) is contained in the concept scheme containing concept roles then the DSD component could play the role implied by the concept, if this is understood by the processing application.
33 33  1. If the concept referenced in the Concept Identity in a DSD component (Dimension, Measure Dimension, Attribute) is not contained in the concept scheme containing concept roles, and the DSD component is playing a role, then the concept role is identified by the Concept Role in the schema.
35 +11. SDMX-ML Examples in a DSD
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35 -== 9.4 SDMX-ML Examples in a DSD ==
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37 37  The standard roles Concept Scheme, is still a normal Concept Scheme, thus it may be used also for the concept identity of a Component, e.g., the 'FREQ':
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41 41  Given this is the standard roles Concept Scheme, any application should interpret the above Dimension to have the role of Frequency.
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43 43  Using a Concept Scheme that is not the standard roles Concept Scheme where it is required to assign a role using the standard roles Concept Scheme. Again, FREQ is chosen as the example.
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47 47  This explicitly states that this Dimension is playing a role identified by the FREQ concept in the standard roles Concept Scheme. Again, the application must interpret this as a Frequency role.
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49 49  In other cases where a role from a non-standard roles Concept Scheme is used, then the application has to know how to interpret the provided roles, e.g., like in the case below:
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53 53  This is all that is required for interoperability within a community. Having a standard roles Concept Scheme, maintained by the SDMX SWG, allows the SDMX community to have a common understanding of the roles, while also being able to extend the roles in bilateral (or multilateral) agreements, by maintaining their own roles Concept Scheme. This will then ensure there is interoperability between systems that understand the use of these concepts.
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55 55  Note that each of the Components (Data Attribute, Measure, Dimension, Time Dimension) has a mandatory identity association (Concept Identity) and if this Concept also identifies the role then it must be interpreted accordingly.
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57 57  In order for these roles to be extensible and also to enable user communities to maintain community-specific roles, the roles are maintained in a controlled vocabulary which is implemented in SDMX as Concepts in a Concept Scheme. The Component optionally references this Concept if it is required to declare the role explicitly. Note that a Component can play more than one role and therefore multiple "role" concepts can be referenced.
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59 -== 9.5 SDMX standard roles Concept Scheme ==
53 +== 9.4 SDMX standard roles Concept Scheme ==
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61 61  As of SDMX 3.0, there is a predefined Concept Scheme, with a set of Concepts that are considered the standard roles for SDMX. Beyond that, a user is free to add other roles, using custom Concept Schemes. This predefined Concept Scheme is the result of the SWG guidelines for Concept Roles, plus that for Measure, and includes the following Concepts:
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