5.4. List of Taxonomies

The Officer can access the list of taxonomies through the ‘Taxonomy’ menu displayed in the top menu: 

If there is one, the last SRIS-released taxonomy and the custom taxonomy for the Authority of the Officer will be listed.

It includes the SRIS last released taxonomy:

If the Officer clicks on any of them, the system will display the taxonomy browser of that taxonomy. Click on the 3-dot button of each taxonomy of the list, and the system will display the following menu:

 Download an XML with the taxonomy or CSV and XSD files with the taxonomy to view the taxonomy browser and release notes.

The View option accesses the Taxonomy browser of the selected taxonomy. See the section Taxonomy browser for further details.

5.4.1                 View Release Notes

Release Notes are generated automatically when a new taxonomy version is released. It includes all the changes the new Taxonomy reflects: attributes, value lists and values that have been added, edited or deleted. 

The Taxonomy version has four digits and consists of the following fields:

·        Major

·        Minor

·        Revision

·        Build

When a new Taxonomy is released, depending on the changes in its items, the version is auto-matically populated based on these rules:

·        Major: It will be increased if any of these changes have been applied:

ü  Entity related:

o         Add Entity

o         Delete Entity

o         Add entity relation

o         Delete entity relation

o         Change Entity (only allowed changes)

·        Minor: It will be increased if any of these changes have been applied:

ü  Attribute related:

o         Delete Attribute

·        Revision:  It will be increased if any of these changes have been applied:

ü  Attribute related:

o         Add Attribute

o         Change attribute (only allowed changes)

ü  Attribute values related:

o         Change value limits

·        Build: it will be increased if any of these changes have been applied:

ü  Attribute values related:

o         Add values

o         Delete values

o         Move values

o         Change values (only allowed changes)

o         Change value lists (only allowed changes)

The Name of the SRIS central taxonomy is ‘SRIS’ concatenated with the four-digit version code. e.g.: SRIS '6.3.0.1'. If a Custom Taxonomy exists for the Officer’s Authority, the Name will be SRIS_DE_ '6.3.0.1' (C#), where the # is the number of the custom taxonomy starting from cero (0).

When the Officer selects ‘View Release Notes', the system opens the Release Notes of the specific taxonomy:

The page provides the following tabs with the corresponding release notes:

·        Entities

·        Linked entities

·        Attributes

·        Value List

·        Values

 

Download XML: it downloads the released taxonomy in XML format.

Download CSV and XSD files: It downloads a zip file of the released taxonomy with the CSV and XSD files.