Field Families

This is a navigation index for the 20 concrete field families defined by the spec. Each row links to the family’s four principal productions in grammar.md:

Field artifact — the family’s XxxField, a standalone reusable artifact.
Field spec — the family’s XxxFieldSpec, carried by the standalone Field artifact.
Value — the family’s instance-value production (XxxValue), carried by a FieldValue in a TemplateInstance.
Embedded form — the family’s EmbeddedXxxField, used inside a Template’s members to reference the standalone field.

The conformance fixture column points at the per-family Template + Instance pair under normative-tests/valid/ and the standalone Field artifact.

Scalar text and numeric

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
Text	`TextField`	`TextFieldSpec`	`TextValue`	`EmbeddedTextField`	`03`–`04`, `49`
Integer number	`IntegerNumberField`	`IntegerNumberFieldSpec`	`IntegerNumberValue`	`EmbeddedIntegerNumberField`	`05`–`06`, `50`
Real number	`RealNumberField`	`RealNumberFieldSpec`	`RealNumberValue`	`EmbeddedRealNumberField`	`07`–`10`, `51`–`52`
Boolean	`BooleanField`	`BooleanFieldSpec`	`BooleanValue`	`EmbeddedBooleanField`	`11`–`12`, `53`

Temporal

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
Date	`DateField`	`DateFieldSpec`	`DateValue` (three arms: `FullDateValue`, `YearValue`, `YearMonthValue`)	`EmbeddedDateField`	`13`–`18`, `54`
Time	`TimeField`	`TimeFieldSpec`	`TimeValue`	`EmbeddedTimeField`	`19`–`20`, `55`
Date-time	`DateTimeField`	`DateTimeFieldSpec`	`DateTimeValue`	`EmbeddedDateTimeField`	`21`–`22`, `56`

Controlled vocabulary

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
Controlled term	`ControlledTermField`	`ControlledTermFieldSpec`	`ControlledTermValue`	`EmbeddedControlledTermField`	`23`–`24`, `57`–`60`
Single-valued enum	`SingleValuedEnumField`	`SingleValuedEnumFieldSpec`	`EnumValue`	`EmbeddedSingleValuedEnumField`	`25`–`26`, `61`
Multi-valued enum	`MultiValuedEnumField`	`MultiValuedEnumFieldSpec`	`EnumValue` (multi-valued)	`EmbeddedMultiValuedEnumField`	`27`–`28`, `62`

Reference and contact

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
Link	`LinkField`	`LinkFieldSpec`	`LinkValue`	`EmbeddedLinkField`	`29`–`30`, `63`
Email	`EmailField`	`EmailFieldSpec`	`EmailValue`	`EmbeddedEmailField`	`31`–`32`, `64`
Phone number	`PhoneNumberField`	`PhoneNumberFieldSpec`	`PhoneNumberValue`	`EmbeddedPhoneNumberField`	`33`–`34`, `65`

External-authority identifiers

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
ORCID	`OrcidField`	`OrcidFieldSpec`	`OrcidValue`	`EmbeddedOrcidField`	`35`–`36`, `66`
ROR	`RorField`	`RorFieldSpec`	`RorValue`	`EmbeddedRorField`	`37`–`38`, `67`
DOI	`DoiField`	`DoiFieldSpec`	`DoiValue`	`EmbeddedDoiField`	`39`–`40`, `68`
PubMed	`PubMedIdField`	`PubMedIdFieldSpec`	`PubMedIdValue`	`EmbeddedPubMedIdField`	`41`–`42`, `69`
RRID	`RridField`	`RridFieldSpec`	`RridValue`	`EmbeddedRridField`	`43`–`44`, `70`
NIH grant	`NihGrantIdField`	`NihGrantIdFieldSpec`	`NihGrantIdValue`	`EmbeddedNihGrantIdField`	`45`–`46`, `71`

Open-ended

Family	Field artifact	Field spec	Value	Embedded form	Fixtures
Attribute value	`AttributeValueField`	`AttributeValueFieldSpec`	`AttributeValue`	`EmbeddedAttributeValueField`	`47`–`48`, `72`

The groupings above are presentational, not normative. The spec does not partition field families into categories at the grammar level; every family is structurally a peer of every other under FieldSpec. The groupings here exist only to make this index easier to scan.

The four §9-of-serialization.md family-specific deviations are worth recalling at the embedding site:

EmbeddedBooleanField and EmbeddedSingleValuedEnumField omit cardinality (single-valued by construction).
EmbeddedMultiValuedEnumField.defaultValue is EnumValue* (a sequence).
EmbeddedAttributeValueField omits defaultValue.

The six external-authority identifier families (ORCID, ROR, DOI, PubMed, RRID, NIH grant) all share an identical XxxFieldSpec shape — { "kind": "<Family>FieldSpec" } with no per-family slots — but distinct value productions carrying typed IRIs.

CEDAR Template Model Specification