Preferred Name

Enumeration

Synonyms
ID

http://qudt.org/schema/qudt/Enumeration

description

An enumeration is a set of literals from which a single value is selected. Each literal can have a tag as an integer within a standard encoding appropriate to the range of integer values. Consistency of enumeration types will allow them, and the enumerated values, to be referred to unambiguously either through symbolic name or encoding. Enumerated values are also controlled vocabularies and as such need to be standardized. Without this consistency enumeration literals can be stated differently and result in data conflicts and misinterpretations.

The tags are a set of positive whole numbers, not necessarily contiguous and having no numerical significance, each corresponding to the associated literal identifier. An order attribute can also be given on the enumeration elements. An enumeration can itself be a member of an enumeration. This allows enumerations to be enumerated in a selection. Enumerations are also subclasses of Scalar Datatype. This allows them to be used as the reference of a datatype specification.

has exact match

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Enumeration

isDefinedBy

http://qudt.org/schema/qudt

http://qudt.org/2.0/schema/qudt

label

Enumeration

prefixIRI

qudt:Enumeration

prefLabel

Enumeration

was influenced by

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumeration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_type

subClassOf

http://qudt.org/schema/qudt/Concept

http://www.linkedmodel.org/schema/dtype#Enumeration

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