Talk:Reference data

Would it be helpful to your article to include an external link to www.listpoint.co.uk, which is a UK Government data standards website focussing on Reference Data and associated standards. Listpoint provides a very strong provenance platform for trusted organisations to share OGL reference data amongst government departments and encourages the sharing of data standards to improve interoperability and information outcomes.

I don't know who made the revision in 2013 that rewrote the definition into something horribly wrong. Reference data is NOT data that limits input values, unless you're a programmer but then you don't know anything about data anyway. Reference data was originally defined correctly as master data that is not under your own control. And this is immediately obvious once you realize that a list of country codes is a reference list even if it's just a list on paper, not limiting any input anywhere.

I suggest people who edit this page first take a look at the DMBOK v2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.159.97.4 (talk) 14:15, 29 August 2019 (UTC)