UID versioning note

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Team,

 

Here is the detail on this extracted from the BCM and CAM specs'.

 

This was an action item from last weeks call.

 

Thanks, DW.

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UIDreference

Valid UID and optional associated registry and taxonomy that points to an entry in a Registry that provides contextual metadata content such as a [valuelist] or other information

 

Similarly the taxonomy preferred is that of the UID system, however where legacy schemes exist such as EDI element dictionary numbering, then the UIDReference can accommodate such values accordingly.    The UID values themselves are composed of an alpha prefix representing an acronym for the domain organization, followed by a simple 6-digit numeric.  Optionally a UID can also have a suffix of colon, major version, and colon, minor version, to provide version control.  When the version information is omitted then the UID reference points to the latest current information from the registry by default.