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Standardizing Federal Data: Categorizing Approaches (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Oct. 21, 2024
Report Number IF12787
Report Type In Focus
Authors Natalie R. Ortiz
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Congress has at times enacted laws that specifically require federal agencies to use data standards, which establish rules to enhance the usability of data. This In Focus provides an overview of three topics related to data standards in the federal context: (1) their role in federal data management, (2) the terminology surrounding data standards and some of the resulting implications for Congress, and (3) categories for the data standards Congress has required in statute. Further discussion of federal data standards is available in CRS Report R48053, Federal Data Management: Issues and Challenges in the Use of Data Standards.