scope:

This document gives guidelines for managing data to support an organization in meeting its asset management objectives and by extension its organizational objectives.

This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of its type or size.

NOTE 1 For the purposes of this document, the terms "asset data" is used to refer to data about assets and "data asset" is used to refer to collections of asset data and potentially other data requiring management as an asset.

NOTE 2 This document does not provide methodologies to derive or appraise value for data assets.

NOTE 3 This document does not provide methodologies to derive financial values for data assets.

NOTE 4 This document does not provide direction to organizations on the need (or not) for calculating financial values for asset data.