Referensbas
Referensbas is a curated collection of reference data used as a baseline for business processes, data analytics, and decision making within an organization. It typically comprises canonical values, codes, and descriptions that describe essential entities such as geographic locations, products, accounts, units of measure, and regulatory terms. A referensbas serves as the authoritative source for how these entities are defined and represented across systems, enabling consistency, interoperability, and auditability.
The primary purpose of a referensbas is to improve data quality by providing stable, versioned values that
Governance and lifecycle are critical. A referensbas is typically maintained by a data governance function or
Common examples include country and currency codes, industry classifications, unit of measure, tax codes, and patient
See also: master data management, reference data management, data governance, taxonomy, ontology.