Abbreviations for the names of the artefacts

The names of the artefacts operated by the VTL-ML come from the VTL IM. In their turn, the names of the VTL IM artefacts are derived as much as possible from the names of the GSIM IM artefacts, as explained in the User Manual.

If the complete names are long, the VTL IM suggests also a compact name, which can be used in place of the complete name in case there is no ambiguity (for example, “Set” instead than “Value Domain Subset”, “Component” instead than “Data Set Component” and so on); moreover, to make the descriptions more compact, a number of abbreviations, usually composed of the initials (in capital case) or the first letters of the words of artefact names, are adopted in this manual:

Complete name	Compact name	Abbreviation
Data Set	Data Set	DS
Data Point	Data Point	DP
Identifier Component	Identifier	Id
Measure Component	Measure	Me
Attribute Component	Attribute	At
Data Set Component	Component	Comp
Value Domain Subset	Subset or Set	Set
Value Domain	Domain	VD

A positive integer suffix (with or without an underscore) can be added in the end to distinguish more than one instance of the same artefact (e.g., DS_1, DS_2, …, DS_N, Me1, Me2, …MeN ). The suffix “r” stands for the result of a Transformation (e.g., DS_r).