Data quality - Part 81: Data quality assessment: Profiling
This document specifies a procedure for data profiling to generate the foundation for performing data quality assessment. This profiling is applicable to data sets that are either originally in a structure of tables and columns or are the output from a transformation to create such a structure.
NOTEÂ 1Â Â Â Data profiling is applicable to all types of database technology.
The following are within the scope of this document:
—   performing structure analysis to determine data element concepts;
—   performing column analysis to identify relevant data elements, including statistics about a data set;
—   performing relationship analysis to identify dependencies in a data set.
The following are outside the scope of this document:
—   methods for extracting and sampling data to be profiled from a data set;
—   deriving data rules;
—   measuring the extent of nonconformities in a data set.
NOTE 2   ISO 8000‑8 specifies approaches to measuring data and information quality.
This document can be used in conjunction with, or independently of, quality management systems standards.
| SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
| Document Number | ISO/TS 8000 |
| Publication Date | Not Available |
| Language | en - English |
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| Committee | ISO/TC 184/SC 4 |