Writing data definitions, defining business terms or business rules within the context of a particular environment provides the structure to develop an organization's data architecture.

A technique for deriving an integrated data definition from existing data resources.

Thus a macro might generate a large number of assembly language instructions or data definitions, based on the macro arguments.

The earliest programming concepts analogous to libraries were intended to separate data definitions from the program implementation.

The result of structured analysis is a set of related graphical diagrams, process descriptions, and data definitions.

Language enhancements for temporal data definition and manipulation include:

It specifies the data definitions for data elements that are commonly used across government.

These teams frequently used internal data definitions that were incompatible with other computer systems.

During systems design, therefore, data definitions are established which place limits on what constitutes valid data.

Using these data definitions, a range of software validation checks can be carried out.