This part of ISO/IEC 11179 specifies requirements and recommendations for constructing definitions for data and metadata. Only semantic aspects of definitions are addressed; specifications for formatting the definitions are deemed unnecessary for the purposes of ISO/IEC 11179. While especially applicable to the content of metadata registries as specified in ISO/IEC 11179-3@ this part of ISO/IEC 11179 is useful broadly for developing definitions for data and metadata. These definitional requirements and recommendations pertain to formulating definitions for data elements and other types of data constructs such as entity types@ entities@ relationships@ attributes@ object types (or classes)@ objects@ composites@ code entries@ metadata items@ and the data referred to by XML tags.
INCITS/ISO/IEC 11179-4:2004 history
2004INCITS/ISO/IEC 11179-4:2004 Information technology - Metadata registries (MDR) - Part 4: Formulation of data definitions
1995INCITS/ISO/IEC 11179-4:1995 Information technology - Specification and standardization of data elements - Part 4: Rules and guidelines for the formulation of data definitions (Adopted by INCITS)