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ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries

Metadata Model Cross Domain specification sold

What I make of it

The standard for how you REGISTER data elements. The meta-standard for this whole catalog.

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Model Details
Steward ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32
Layer Metadata Model
Domain Cross Domain
Status live
Access Specification sold by the steward
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 4/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Enclosed
Assessed 53.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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