Concepts

These articles explain how Data Standardizer is designed and why, so the patterns you meet in the per-package guides make sense.

In this section

• Why standardize data — the problem strongly-typed standards solve.
• Strongly-typed codes — the enum / IStringEnum struct pattern used across the packages, and the shared Core building blocks.
• Metadata and lookups — how names, numeric codes, and other attributes are attached to code members and retrieved.
• Data currency and versioning — how the code lists are kept up to date with the standards bodies.

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Table of contents

• Why standardize data
• Strongly-typed codes
• Metadata and lookups
• Data currency and versioning