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)
• Annotations (optional)

Items such as Codes and Concepts, are not maintainable artefacts because they can only exist within their containers, in this case Codelists and Concept Schemes respectively.

URN

Maintainable artefacts can be uniquely referenced by a URN: urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.Dataflow=WB:LABOR_FORCE(1.0)

The above example is the URN from a World Bank Labor Force Dataflow where:

Agency	WB (World Bank)
Dataflow ID	LABOR_FORCE
Version	1.0

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