0425 Subject Areas¶

Subject areas are topic areas that are important to the organization. Typically, they cover data that is widely shared across the organization and there is business value in maintaining consistency in the data values in each copy.
The role of the SubjectAreaDefinition is to act as a collection point for all the subject area materials.

SubjectAreaHierarchy relationship¶

A subject area may be subdivided into more specific subject areas. The subject areas can be linked together into a hierarchy using SubjectAreaHierarchy relationships.

SubjectArea classification¶

Elements that are part of the materials for a subject area are classified with the SubjectArea classification. The name attribute in the classification matches the subjectAreaName attribute in the SubjectAreaDefinition.

This classification makes it easy to locate all the subject area's content.

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