A set of  used to represent values for a property of a  or .

Notes

• Concept enumeration serves the same purpose as more general approaches to providing enumerated lists of values (i.e. assigning a number to a value). However, the use of  allows access to the human readable meaning of each enumeration using  in the same way for other concepts.
• The used to represent concept enumerations are usually (or ) of in the metadata hierarchy. Each possible value is represented by a single child . This allows updates to the permitted values to be tracked using the  mechanism.

Example

• Concept enumerations for description.typeId:

  900000000000446008 |Description type (core metadata concept)| 900000000000003001 |Fully specified name (core metadata concept)| 900000000000013009 |Synonym (core metadata concept)| 900000000000550004 |Definition (core metadata concept)|