Many organizations produce data for internal or external use.
With the advent of electronic access to data through the Internet and other media, the metadata must be electronically accessible, too. However, the framework has limitations that constrain the usefulness of the registries. The proposed New Work Item will remedy some of these limitations. The metadata that is specified in the standard describes data elements at the fundamental level. Organizations that produce and use data generate new data elements from existing ones, and the standard does not address this issue.