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9. Details of Individual Encoding Schemes

9.1 Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS)

Attribute

Value

Identifying Attributes

Name

GEDS

Label

Government Electronic Directory Services

Defined by

To be determined - See Comment below

Encoding Scheme URI

To be determined - See Comment below

Definitional Attributes

Description

A listing of Government of Canada employees, institutions and institutional entities.

Comment

This encoding scheme may be formally defined within a namespace, once this capacity is available for the Government of Canada.

Relational Attributes

Refines

creator

Conditions of Application

Constraint

-

Datatype Name

String

Format

Text

9.2 Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus (CST)

Attribute

Value

Identifying Attributes

Name

gccore

Label

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Defined by

To be determined - See Comment below

Encoding Scheme URI

To be determined - See Comment below

Definitional Attributes

Description

A controlled vocabulary for the description and retrieval of a resource.

Comment

This encoding scheme may be formally defined within a namespace, once this capacity is available for the Government of Canada.

Relational Attributes

References

Refines

subject

Conditions of Application

Constraint

-

Datatype Name

String

Format

Text

9.3 Government of Canada Format Scheme

Attribute

Value

Identifying Attributes

Name

gcformat

Label

Government of Canada Format Scheme

Defined by

To be determined - See Comment below

Encoding Scheme URI

To be determined - See Comment below

Definitional Attributes

Description

A controlled vocabulary containing data format terms, sample file extensions and the source of the term.

Comment

This encoding scheme may be formally defined within a namespace, once this capacity is available for the Government of Canada.

Relational Attributes

Refines

formatMIME

Conditions of Application

Constraint

-

Datatype Name

String

Format

Text

9.4 Government Security Policy

Attribute

Value

Identifying Attributes

Name

GSP

Label

Government Security Policy

Defined by

To be determined - See Comment below

Encoding Scheme URI

To be determined - See Comment below

Definitional Attributes

Description

A controlled vocabulary of designations to describe security levels of indviduals.

Comment

This encoding scheme may be formally defined within a namespace, once this capacity is available for the Government of Canada.

Relational Attributes

Refines

securityClearance; sensitivity

Conditions of Application

Constraint

-

Datatype Name

String

Format

Text

9.5 Government of Canada Type Scheme

Attribute

Value

Identifying Attributes

Name

gctype

Label

Government of Canada Type Scheme

Defined by

To be determined - See Comment below

Encoding Scheme URI

To be determined - See Comment below

Definitional Attributes

Description

A controlled vocabulary of designations to describe the genre or nature of a resource.

Comment

This encoding scheme may be formally defined within a namespace, once this capacity is available for the Government of Canada.

Relational Attributes

Refines

type

Conditions of Application

Constraint

-

Datatype Name

String

Format

Text

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