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Title
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The Universal Data Element Framework
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Reference
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UDEF
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Common name
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UDEF
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Year of Publication
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2006 onwards
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Status
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Adopted
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Short Description
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The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) is a standard way of indexing enterprise information.
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Service category
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Data Interchange Services
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Service
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Document generic data typing and conversion
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Type
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Other
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Description
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The UDEF is an instantiation of the naming convention specified by the International Standard for Metadata Registries, ISO/IEC 11179. It enables an enterprise to tag its data element concepts (a key metadata definition of that standard) with globally standard identifiers, and hence relate them to similar data element concepts defined by other organizations.
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Usage
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Enterprises today store huge amounts of information of many different kinds.They can use the UDEF to index that information. Developers can then find information sources more easily, bringing down software costs. It is a standard, so that costs are reduced for interfaces to other enterprises that use the UDEF, as well as within the enterprise itself.
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See also
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Supersedes
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Superseded by
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URL
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http://www.opengroup.org/udef/
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