NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.: PR/95-0122
Reply to: Lynn Barra at lbarra@itic.nw.dc.us

Washington D.C., December 1995 -- Accredited Standards Committee 
X3, Information Technology is announcing the public comment period for 
X3.285:199x.  The public review extends from January 19, 1996 to 
March 19, 1996.

The goal of data registration is the maintenance of the meaning, 
representation, and identification of units of data over time and distance. 
Coherence and persistence of data descriptions and usage depend on 
accurate documentation. The process for documenting data descriptions is 
data registration and the place for documenting these descriptions is a data 
registry.

A data registry is a place to keep characteristics of data that are necessary 
to clearly describe, inventory, analyze, and classify data. A data registry 
supports data sharing with cross-system and cross-organization 
descriptions of common data. Units of shareable data have precise 
identifiers, meanings, structures, and values. They are consistently 
deployed among users and systems and are centrally administered. A data 
registry assists users of shared data to have a common understanding of a 
unit of data's meaning, representation, and identification.
This standard specifies the structure of a data registry. The structure is 
stated in the form of a conceptual data model.

Submit all comments to:  X3 Secretariat, Attn.:  Lynn Barra, 1250 Eye 
Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC  20005.  Send a copy to:  ANSI, 
Attn.:  BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY  10036.

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is 
also being issued.  Please submit information on these issues to the X3 
Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC  20005. 
Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us   FAX:  (202)638-4922.

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