ISO 8000

ISO 8000, Data quality, is an ISO standard under development. It will be published as a number of separate documents, which ISO calls "parts".

ISO 8000 is being developed by ISO technical committee TC 184, Automation systems and integration, sub-committee SC 4, Industrial data. Like other ISO and IEC standards, ISO 8000 is copyrighted and is not freely available.

Published parts

The following part has already been published:

• ISO/TS 8000-1:2011, Data quality — Part 1: Overview
• ISO 8000-2:2012, Data quality — Part 2: Vocabulary
• ISO/TS 8000-100:2009, Data quality — Part 100: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Overview
• ISO 8000-102:2009, Data quality — Part 102: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Vocabulary
• ISO 8000-110:2009, Data quality — Part 110: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Syntax, semantic encoding, and conformance to data specification
• ISO/TS 8000-120:2009, Data quality — Part 120: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Provenance
• ISO/TS 8000-130:2009, Data quality — Part 130: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Accuracy
• ISO/TS 8000-140:2009, Data quality — Part 140: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Completeness
• ISO/TS 8000-150:2011, Data quality — Part 150: Master data: Quality management framework

Further reading

Benson, Peter (2009), "ISO 8000 Data Quality — The Fundamentals, Part 1", Real-World Decision Support (RWDS) Journal, 3 (4)

Benson, Peter (2008), NATO Codification System as the foundation for ISO 8000, the International Standard for data quality (Oil IT Journal) (PDF)

Benson, Peter (2009), ISO 8000 — A new international standard for data quality

Benson, Peter (2010), Peter Benson discusses the certification options of ISO 8000 (Live Recording)

Grantner, Emily (2007), "ISO 8000 — A Standard for data quality", Logistics Spectrum (Oct.-Dec.)

West, Matthew (2009), "ISO 8000 — the Emerging Standard for Data Quality", IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Newsletter, 5 (3) (full article requires no cost registration to access)