Maintainable artefact

An SDMX maintainable artefact is one that can be independently created and maintained by a maintenance agency.

Maintainable artefacts have:

• ID
• Version
• Name
• Description (optional)

Additional Characteristics:

• Maintainable artefacts can be uniquely referenced by a URN, for instance: urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.Dataflow=WB:LABOR_FORCE(1.0)
• Optionally have annotations

Codes and Concepts, for instance, are not maintainable artefacts because they cannot exist outside of their containers - in this case Codelists and Concept Schemes.

Examples

The following SDMX structures are maintainable artefacts:

• Agency Schemes
• Attachment Constraints
• Category Schemes
• Codelists
• Concept Schemes
• Content Constraints
• Data Consumers
• Data Providers
• Data Structure Definitions
• Dataflows
• Hierarchical Codelists
• Metadata Structure Definitions
• Metadataflows
• Organisation Unit Schemes
• Processes
• Provision Agreements
• Reporting Taxonomies
• Structure Sets
• Metadata Reports

The following are additional maintainable artefacts supported by Fusion Registry that are not part of the formal SDMX standard:

• Validation Schemes