Full Description BS ISO/IEC 11179-1:2015 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 part of ISO/IEC 11179 is applicable to the formulation of data representations, concepts, meanings and relationships to be shared among people and machines, independent of the organization that produces the data. It is not applicable to the physical representation of data as bits and bytes at the machine level.
In this part of ISO/IEC 11179 (and all other parts), metadata refers to descriptions of data. It does not contain a general treatment of metadata.
Cross References:
ISO/IEC 11179
ISO 704:2009
ISO 1087-1:2000
ISO/IEC 2382
ISO 3166-1:2013
ISO/TR 9007:1987
ISO/IEC/TR 9789:1994
ISO/IEC 10027:1990
ISO/IEC/TR 10032:2003
ISO/IEC 10241
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
ISO/IEC 11404:2007
ISO/IEC 19505:2012
ISO/IEC/TR 20943
ISO 25964-1:2011
ISO 80000-1:2009
ISO/IEC Guide 2
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