ISO/IEC 11179-6:2023

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 11179-6
Fourth edition
2023-01
Information technology — Metadata
registries (MDR) —
Part 6:
Registration
Technologies de l'information — Registres de métadonnées (RM) —
Partie 6: Enregistrement des données
Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword . vi
Introduction .vii
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Concept of operation . 4
4.1 Metamodel of a metadata registry . 4
4.2 Common facilities. 4
4.2.1 Identification . 4
4.2.2 Designation and definition . 4
4.2.3 Classification . . 4
4.2.4 Registration . 5
4.3 Status categories . . 5
4.3.1 General . 5
4.3.2 Summary of registration status categories . 5
4.3.3 Description of registration status categories . 7
4.3.4 Description of administrative status . 9
4.4 Procedures . 9
5 Metadata registries of administered items .10
5.1 General . 10
5.2 Contents . 10
5.2.1 Metadata registry views . 10
5.2.2 Metadata registry contents and levels of conformance . 10
5.2.3 Metadata registry contents and types of administered items . 11
5.3 Language(s) . 11
5.4 Availability of the metadata registry of administered items . 11
6 Conformance .11
Annex A (informative) Identifiers based on ISO/IEC 6523 .12
Annex B (informative) Suggested functional operating procedures — Roles and
responsibilities .16
Annex C (informative) Suggested functional operating procedures — Concept of operations .24
Annex D (informative) Suggested functional operating procedures — Procedures .27
Annex E (informative) Suggested functional operating procedures — Harmonization and
reuse .36
Annex F (informative) Frequently asked questions .38
Bibliography .40
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List of Figures
Figure A.1 — Structure of International Registration Data Identifier (IRDI) .13
Figure A.2 — Structure for the identification of organizations and organization parts .14
Figure B.1 — Organizational roles to the metadata registry and their relationships .17
Figure C.1 — Registration functional activities .25
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List of Tables
Table 1 — Registration status levels and criteria . 6
Table A.1 — DUNS entry from the ISO/IEC 6523 registry .15
Table D.1 — Example administrative status values .34
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Foreword
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This document was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and interchange.
This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition (ISO/IEC 11179-6:2015), which has been
technically revised.
The main changes are as follows:
— the restructuring of the different parts of ISO/IEC 11179 have been taken into account;
— references to other standards have been updated to the latest editions.
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Introduction
This document describes the procedure by which metadata items, or other registry items, required
in various application areas can be assigned an internationally unique identifier and registered in a
metadata registry maintained by one or more Registration Authorities. This document supports
multiple schemes for ensuring the uniqueness of the identification.
The metamodel of the common facilities for a metadata registry is defined in ISO/IEC 11179-3. Other
parts in the ISO/IEC 11179 series and the ISO/IEC 19763 series provide additional metamodels to extend
the common facilities to permit various types of metadata to be registered. The metamodel for the
common facilities defined in ISO/IEC 11179-3 allows a registry item to simply be identified or to be both
identified and registered. A registered item may either be an administered item, meaning it has its own
registration state, or it may be an attached item, which means it is attached to an administered item and
shares the latter's registration state. The registered items are included in registries maintained by one
or more Registration Authorities, to which the registered items logically and functionally belong. An
organization wishing to become a registration authority may do so in accordance with the procedure
prescribed in Annex A.
The registration process described in this document may be applied to any type of registry item, such
as those specified by:
[8]
— ISO/IEC 11179-31 : data elements, data element concepts, conceptual domains, value meanings,
value domains and classification schemes;
[9]
— ISO/IEC 11179-32 : concept systems, relations and links;
[10]
— ISO/IEC 11179-33 : data sets and associated attributes;
[16]
— ISO/IEC 11179-34 : computable data;
[11]
— ISO/IEC 11179-35 : models;
[14]
— ISO/IEC 19763 : ontologies, process models, service models, role and goal models,
information models, document models, mappings between models, and form designs;
and/or custom types not specified by these standards. Each registered item is represented within
a metadata registry by a registration record that documents the common administration and
identification, naming and definition details together with their metadata item-specific details.
Within this document, the use of “Registry” denotes an implementation of a registry that is based upon
the common facilities defined in ISO/IEC 11179-3 and that is managed by one or more Registration
Authorities.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 11179-6:2023(E)
Information technology — Metadata registries (MDR) —
Part 6:
Registration
1 Scope
This document defines the type of information to be specified, the conditions to be met, and the
procedure(s) to be followed for each item to be registered in a metadata registry. The requirements
and procedures contained herein apply to all types of
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