Metadata & Quality
ISO/IEC 11179
Metadata Registries
Specifies how data elements are named, defined, classified and registered so that meaning survives movement between systems and organisations. It is the metadata registry model underneath national statistics offices, health data authorities and public sector registries.
Heavyweight for a product team, but if you file data to a regulator that runs an 11179 registry, its concepts (data element concept, value domain, conceptual domain) are the shape your submissions have to take.
At a glance
- Category
- Metadata & Quality
- Jurisdiction
- Global
- Governance
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32
- Status
- Multi-part series; Part 1 first published 1999
- First released
- 1999
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Metadata & Quality.
- ISO 8000: Data Quality
- ISO/IEC 25012: Data Quality Model
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