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Conventions, Cardinality, and Primitive Types

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ICGLR Data Standard — clean, normative specification.

Cardinality #

  • 1..1 — Required, occurs once.
  • 0..1 — Optional, occurs at most once.
  • 0..n — Optional, occurs any number of times.
  • 1..n — Required, occurs one or more times.
  • 1..X — Required, at least once and at most X times.

Primitive Data Types #

PrimitiveDefinition / Representation
DateCalendar date in ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD.
DecimalReal number represented in decimal.
StringFinite sequence of characters (implementations may impose max lengths).
IdentifierString with format rules; used for formally-structured values.

General Formatting Rules #

  • DateYYYY-MM-DD (no time-of-day).
  • Country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (e.g., RWTZ).
  • Subdivision: ISO 3166-2 (e.g., CD-BU).
  • Units: UN/ECE Recommendation No. 20 codes.
  • Mineral Codes: IMA codes.

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