What is ISO 19160-3 ‒ Address data quality about?
ISO 19160-3 is the third part of an international multi-series standard that focuses on addressing data.
ISO 19160-3 establishes a set of data quality elements and measures for describing the quality of address data. It describes procedures for reporting data quality.
ISO 19160-3 provides guidelines for the use of the established set of data quality elements and measures for describing the quality of address data.
ISO 19160-3 can be used by those evaluating and reporting the quality of address data such as address data managers, address data aggregators, and address data users.
Who is ISO 19160-3‒ Address data quality for?
ISO 19160-3 on Address data quality is useful for:
- Database managing companies
- Data storage companies
- IT companies
- Address data users
- Address data aggregators
- Address data managers
Why should you use ISO 19160-3‒ Address data quality?
Addresses provide one of the most common ways to unambiguously determine an object for purposes of identification and location, and yet they can vary considerably from country to country. The wide range of uses for addresses, as well as the need to share and aggregate address data, requires a consistent framework for measuring and reporting the quality of address data.
The goal of ISO 19160-3 is to provide address database managers, address data aggregators, and address data users with this framework.
ISO 19160-3 is needed due to the uniqueness and complexity of addressing. The temporal nature of addresses, their components, and the real-world objects they identify can make it difficult to determine if addresses are missing or incorrectly included in a dataset.
ISO 19160-3 recognizes that the wide range of uses for addresses means that the data quality evaluation process utilized will depend on the use of the addresses being evaluated, in order to enable organizing, maintaining, and providing address records to the users.
ISO 19160-3 objective is to ensure address data quality is maintained and/or improved by establishing a set of address data quality measures. It can also help the users to understand and communicate the quality of an address dataset when address data aggregation or sharing needs to be accomplished.
