Datatypes

User UUID

ID useruuid

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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UUID that identifies a user account, typically in a column such as user_uuid, account_uuid or user_guid. The value has the UUID format (uuid). Metacrafter reports it when the field name points to a user.

Parent datatype
User ID by field name userid
Categories
User accounts in products and services, Universal unique identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
83/100 · missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...)
Metacrafter rules
2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
metacrafter

Regular expression

^[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{12}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847daUUIDv4 from the Python uuid module documentation
42 invalidNumeric user ID, see userid

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianUUID пользователя

Sources

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