Excerpt from Guide for the Development, Implementation and Maintenance of Standards for the Representation of Computer Processed Data Elements: Category Data Standards, Approved as an American National Standards Institute Introduction Viewpoints, Things, and Classes Acceptance Common Viewpoint Terms Condensed Representation Data and Data Representations Fundamental Approaches to Data Standardization Data Elements Complex Data Elements Data Elements Used for Matrices Primary Data Elements and Attribute Data Elements Data Representations Other Than Codes Names Abbreviations Quantitative Data Summary (section 3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.