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Data standards

Source: vignettes/Data standards.Rmd
Data standards.Rmd

Data standards

The rules for structuring information that has been collected, and which facilitate semantic interoperability. A set of agreed data standards ensures that the data entered into a system can be reliably read, sorted, indexed, retrieved and communicated between systems. For example, length of a field, format, the encoding of the information, and permissible values (47).