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This document provides the means for understanding and associating the individual parts of ISO/IEC 11179 and is the foundation for a conceptual understanding of metadata and metadata registries. This document also describes the relationship of ISO/IEC 11179 to other JTC 1/SC 32 standards, technical specifications and technical reports on metadata.

In all parts of ISO/IEC 11179, metadata refers to descriptions of data. It does not contain a general treatment of metadata.


General information 

  • Status
     :  Published
    Publication date
     : 2023-01
  • Edition
     : 4
    Number of pages
     : 34
  • Technical Committee
     : ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange
  • ICS
     :
    35.040.50 Automatic identification and data capture techniques

Sustainable Development Goals

This standard contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goal:

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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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