Category inherited from CDIFDataDescription
DiscoveryDataDescription::Classes::Category
Definition
Documentation
Original
Reference
cdi:Category
Definition
Definition
Concept whose role is to define and measure a characteristic.
Examples
The category "Male" is used to define or measure "Sex" or "Gender", which are characteristics. In turn, they are also variables. "Extremely Satisfied" is a category in an agreement scale. This can be used for many kinds of variables.
Explanatory notes
A category is a concept, typically associated with a code in the representation of a variable value. Categories are most often used in the allowed values for qualitative, i.e., nominal and ordinal, variables. A set of categories, say "Male" and "Female" for characteristics "Sex" or "Gender," helps define those characteristics. For describing location of measurement station, you might have categories "Urban", "Suburban", "Rural", etc.
CDIF
Definition
A category value (cdi:Category) used to label per-category statistics breakdowns. Identified by @id and an optional value/label.
Diagram
Inheritance
No generalization relationships.
Attributes
| Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| identifier | XsdAnyUri | [0..1] | DocumentationOriginalReferenceschema:identifier DefinitionThe identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [[Thing]], such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See [background notes](/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. ScopeDomain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: PropertyValue (https://schema.org/PropertyValue), Text (https://schema.org/Text), URL (https://schema.org/URL). CDIFDefinitionThe primary identifier for the dataset; other identifiers should be listed in the sameAs field. Schema.org has three ways of encoding identifiers-- a text description, a URL, or by using the schema:PropertyValue field. The Science on Schema.org guidance strongly recommends using the PropertyValue approach. see https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org .... Dataset.md#identifier. Ideally, for any given data provided they would provide identifiers either all as strings or all as identifier_type. Scope@id. |
| name | string | [0..1] | DocumentationOriginalReferenceschema:name DefinitionThe name of the item. ScopeDomain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: Text (https://schema.org/Text). CDIFDefinitionA descriptive name of a dataset (e.g., 'Snow depth in Northern Hemisphere'). The name should uniquely identify the described resource for human use, in the scope of the metadata catalog containing this metadata record. Scopeschema:name - category label. |
Associations
| Role | Target | Multiplicity | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| for | ← CategoryStatistics | [1] | association |