What is ISO 8000?
ISO 8000 is the international standards for data quality. The purpose of ISO 8000 is to make it easier to tell the difference between those companies and software application that can deliver what ISO 8000 defines as quality data and those that cannot. The strength and power in ISO 8000 lies in the fact that the opinion of what is, and what is not, quality data, is based on international agreement. Industry experts from around the world have agreed that there are characteristics of data that can be used to define and measure its quality and these are described in ISO 8000. The practical purpose of a standard or a specification is to provide a form of commercial shorthand. Claiming that something conforms to a standard is the same as claiming that something conforms to the clauses in the standard. For example when you ask how many USB ports a computer has, you are asking how many ports on the computer conform to the USB specification. In the same way, the purpose of ISO 8000 is to allow
