ValidatReport

Standard validation report structure for the ESS

Version 1.0.0 (2017-08-15)

• Report (pdf)
• JSON schema
• R package implementing this format.

Interactive dashboards on standard validation reports

• Pilot dashboard1 on synthetic data using the 18 rules from ESSnet Validation Foundation POC.
• Pilot dashboard2 on a validation report with 3 rules and 121 validation events generated by the R package validate.
• Pilot dashboard3 on 10 000 synthetic validation events using the 18 rules from ESSnet Validation Foundation POC.
• Pilot dashboard4 on a validation report generated by R package validate on data and rules from shops.
• Pilot dashboard5 on a validation report generated by R package validate on data from Task2 on metrics from the regional conference.
• Pilot dashboard6 on a validation report generated by R package validate on data from National accounts.
• Pilot dashboard7 view validation results in data table: synthetic population data
• Pilot dashboard8 view validation results in data table: SBS2000 data

The report structure in more detail

A short summary of the report structure is given below.

There are two types of structure, the most basic is a validation with the following structure (in pseudocode: types are given in fixed font, optional slots are indicated in italics an array is indicated with [square brackets]).

• validation
  • id string
  • type enum: 'validation'
  • event
    • time string in ISO 8601 format
    • actor string
    • agent string
    • trigger string
  • rule
    • language string
    • expression string
    • severity `enum: ‘error’, ‘warning’, ‘information’
    • change `enum: ‘up’, ‘down’
    • description string
  • data
    • source [string]
    • target [string]
    • description
  • value enum: '0', '1', 'NA'

The second type is a aggregation with the following structure.

• aggregation
  • id string
  • type enum: 'aggregation'
  • event
    • time string in ISO 8601 format
    • actor string
    • agent string
    • trigger string
  • aggregate
    • language string
    • expression string
    • description string
  • data
    • source [string]
    • target [string]
    • description
  • value string