The Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) is an international not for profit membership association founded in 1999 with mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce.

The Association first developed the UNSPSC

UNSPSC

The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code is a taxonomy of products and services for use in eCommerce. It is a five-level hierarchy coded as an 8-digit number.-Governance:...

 as a global commodity classification and went on to develop the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD

EOTD

eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules, and regulations...

) to allow the creation and exchange of unambiguous, language independent master data

Master data

Master data, which may include reference data, is information that is key to the operation of business and is the primary focus of the Information Technology discipline of Master Data Management . This key business information may include data about customers, products, employees, materials,...

, data

Data

The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

 that identifies and describes individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The eOTD

EOTD

eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules, and regulations...

 is based on the Federal Cataloging System and the NATO Codification System, the systems used to manage the world’s largest shared inventory developed by the Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 and members of NATO and used today in over 50 countries.

ECCMA is the project leader for ISO 22745 (Open technical dictionaries and their application to master data) and ISO 8000

ISO 8000

ISO 8000, Data quality, is an ISO standard under development. It will be published as a number of separate documents, which ISO calls "parts"....

 (Data quality).

ECCMA is the American National Standards Institute

American National Standards Institute

The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international...

 (ANSI) accredited administrator of the US technical advisory group (US TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 184 Sub Committee 4

ISO TC 184/SC 4

ISO TC 184/SC 4 is an international standards organization responsible for industrial data. ISO TC 184/SC 4 develops and maintains ISO standards that describe and manage industrial product data throughout the life of the product...

 (ISO TC 184/SC 4), a leading ISO technical committee responsible for the development and maintenance of international standards for industrial data.

ECCMA is a Type A Liaison organization to ISO TC 184/SC 4

ISO TC 184/SC 4

ISO TC 184/SC 4 is an international standards organization responsible for industrial data. ISO TC 184/SC 4 develops and maintains ISO standards that describe and manage industrial product data throughout the life of the product...

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