5.3. Taxonomy structure

ECCAIRS taxonomyand elementsSRIS aretaxonomies structuredhave asthe follows:same structure in 4 levels:

• Entities 

• Attributes

• Value Lists

• Values

5.3.1 Entities

Entities represent itemsobjects to which specific attributes are assigned—assigned.

An entity could be, for example, anthe “Aircraft”"Aircraft" involved in an incident or the associated"Events" “Events”describing description.the incident.

Multiple instances of an entity maycan exist whenif several itemssuch objects are involved (e.g., multiple aircraft in aan single incident).event.

Entities can have child entitiesentities, (e.g., an"Engine" “Engine”is belonginga tochild anentity “Aircraft”)of "Aircraft".

Entities maycan also be linked to other entitiesentities. (e.g., “Airspace” or “Aerodrome” where the “Aircraft” is operating).

5.3.1.1 Entities information

Entities in the Taxonomy Treetree are representedmarked bywith   icon or. .When the Entity is a Linked Entity, it is also marked in green colour.

The following information will be displayed inon the right side of the screen when youthe clickOfficer clicks on an Entity in the Taxonomy Tree:tree:

·       

Entity information: A brief summary of the selected Entity.

·       

Parent Entities: The list of its parent Entities

·       

Child Entities: The list of its children Entities

·       

Attributes. The list of its Attributes

Click on each tab (Parent Entities, Child Entities, Attributes) to view itsthe information.relevant information:

Clicking the 'eye' icon   you can see detailed information from the entity.

5.3.2 Attributes

Attributes describe properties/values associated towith an entity and represented by .entity. An example of an attribute of the “Aircraft” entity isis, for instance, its "manufacturer/model". Attributes maycan have either single or multiple values and can be of the following types:values.

• Number

• Decimals

• Text

• Alphanumeric

• Date

• Time

• DateTime

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Code

• Code and Additional Text

• Code or Alternative Text

• ECCAIRS Resource Locator

• ECCAIRS Data Link

• ECCAIRS Embedded Data

5.3.2.1 Attributes information

AttributeThe Attributes are marked with  icon in the Taxonomy Tree.

The Officer can view the information canof bean viewedAttribute from two locationsplaces withinin the Taxonomy Browser:

a.          LocateFind thean attribute in the Taxonomy Tree and click onit: it (1). The information will then be displayed in the right-hand pane.

b.         

Select the entityEntity to which the attributeAttribute belongs in the Taxonomy Tree (1), thenand click on the 'Attribute' tabtab. inThe Officer will see all the right-handAttributes pane (2). Finally locateof the attributeselected inEntity. the

list

Click and clickon the 'eye'Eye' icon to view itsthe detailed information (3):information.

·        Definition

The information will be displayed:

Attribute information may be displayed across two tabs:

Definition

• Values: IfIf the attributeAttribute has a predefined value list,List. you In the Values tree, the Officer can navigate through the values in the Values Tree by clicking on each element. The selected value will display its definition.definition, and the Values can be searched by Taxonomy Codecode or Descriptiondescription and can be sortedordered alphabetically.

5.3.3 Value Lists

 

The list of values an attribute can have is defined in a Value List. The Value List can have multiple levellevels where values are organizedorganised in a tree mode.

Each

Value listList can have Alias:Aliases.

5.3.4. Values

DependingValues assigned to an attribute depend on the attributetype type,of valuesthe mayAttribute. eitherThese can be manually enteredinputted or selected from a predefined list of values (Value List). For example, for the Manufacturer/Model of an aircraft, a value can be chosen from a Value List:

5.3.5.

However, for the Location Name attribute, values must be entered as free text only:

Filter the information

The

YouOfficer can filter the Parent Entities, Child Entities and Attributes table by typing the term to be searched in the filter row. YouThe Officer can restrict the results by clicking the 'filter' icon  To delete the filter, you must click the 'clear  filter' icon.

button.

By default, the 'contains' condition is selected:selected.

To delete the filter, the Officer must click the ' clear filter' icon.

5.3.6. View detailed information

To view more information about the select Entity, the Officer must click the 'eye' icon.

The filter options are:

Is equal to: the filter will look for fields that match the exact same string

Is not equal to: the filter will avoid the fields that match the exact same string

Contains: the filter will display all the fields that have the string written in any position

Does not contain: the filter will display the fields that do not have the string written in any position

Start with: the filter will look for the string at the beginning of the field

Ends with: the filter will look for the string at the end of the field

Is null: field does not exist

Is not null: field exists

Is empty: fields exist but does not have information

Is not empty: field exists and has information

To

view more information about the Parent Entities, Child Entities or Attributes, the Officer can click the 'eye' icon that appears while moving the mouse over the row.

 

A slide-in panel with the element information will be displayed when clicking on the' eye' icon. The Officer can click outside the panel to close it and return to the previous screen.