The ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry (MDR) standard is an international ISO/IEC standard for representing metadata for an organization in a metadata registry. It documents the standardization and registration of metadata to make data understandable and shareable. [1]

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.

A list of all parts in the ISO/IEC 11179 series can be found on the ISO and IEC websites. Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body.

ISO/IEC 11179 – Metadata registries [1], is a standard for describing any kind of data and organizing the descriptions in a registry. Many NSO's are implementing this standard as part of their metadata management strategy, as describing data …

ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata registries (MDR), addresses the semantics of data, the representation of data, and the registration of the descriptions of that data. It is through these descriptions that an accurate understanding of the semantics and a useful depiction of the data are found. The purposes of ISO/IEC 11179 are to promote the following:

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.

iso/iec 11179-1:2023 Information technology - Metadata registries (MDR) - Part 1: Framework This document provides the means for understanding and associating the individual parts of ISO/IEC 11179 and is the foundation for a conceptual …

Jun 3, 2005 · The ISO/IEC 11179 series addresses the semantics of data, the representation of data and the registration of the descriptions of that data. It is through these descriptions that an accurate understanding of the semantics and a useful depiction of the data are found. The purposes of ISO/IEC 11179 are to promote the following:

iso/iec 11179¶ DDI-L reflects ISO/IEC 11179 structure in several respects. First, it maps the core structures Concept, Universe, ConceptualVariable, and RepresentedVariable to the ISO/IEC 11179 Data Element Classification Structure.

ISO/IEC-11179 [1] is an international standard that documents the standardization and registration of metadata to make data understandable and shareable. This standardization and registration allows for easier locating, retrieving, and transmitting data from disparate databases.