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Adopt industry terms to ease your organization's ability to publish to new platforms.
View the Terms Online>Goal: Share a common language for data to be meaningful and its context to be clear. | How: Per term (eg, metadata element) a meaningful description is captured along with specifications such as allowed values, type, size, constraints, and relations to other data elements. | Benefits: When stakeholders across your organization collaboratively agree on definitions, information becomes easier to exchange between data citizens. |