ElementaryTypes - Elementary types

Enumarators overview

• any (1) - Any kind of data
  
• binary (2) - Binary data
  
• currency (3) - Currency
  
• date (4) - Date
  
• name (5) - Name
  
• number (6) - Number
  
• text (7) - Text
  
• time (8) - Time
  
• timestamp (9) - Timestamp
  
• title (10) - Title
  
• yes/no (11) - Yes or No
  

Enumerator details

1. any - Any kind of data
   

   The type refers to any kind of data, where the current type of the data referenced is not known. It simply means that any type of data might be referenced.

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2. binary - Binary data
   

   Binary is a generalized data type for any kind of non-textual and non-numeric data (e.g. movies, sounds, executables etc.).

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3. currency - Currency
   

   Currency is used to express the value of a certain item. The type of currency (Euro, Dollar etc.) is not part of the conceptual type.

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4. date - Date
   

   Date is considered conceptually as elementary value, although it usually consists of day, month and year.

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5. name - Name
   

   The type name typically applies on characteristics, which consists of rather short text information used for identifying object instances in a collection. Usually, non-numeric identifying characteristics are associated with type name.

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6. number - Number
   

   Numbers are used for quantitative characteristics in order to store the quantity of a certain item.

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7. text - Text
   

   Text type provides sufficient capacity for referring to text data of any size. Text is typically used as data type for descriptive characteristics.

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8. time - Time
   

   Time is considered as elementary value from a conceptual point of view, although it usually consists of hour, minute, second etc. The precision of time type depends on the specific subject area, i.e. physicians may consider time values measured in nanoseconds of even more detailed, while the administration of a university is satisfied with time measured in hours and minutes.

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9. timestamp - Timestamp
   

   Timestamps provide a time point including date and time or the number of seconds with any precision after a well-defined 0 time point. Similar to date and time, timestamp is considered as elementary from a conceptual point of view.

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10. title - Title
    

    Title refers to text data with limited size (e.g. 200 characters). Similar to text, title is typically used as data type for descriptive characteristics.

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11. yes/no - Yes or No
    

    Yes/No (Boolean) is used for properties, which are either true or false. Indeed, this is a classification, but conceptual, it is not considered as such and should be supported as elementary type in a terminology model.

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