Metrological Data Completeness for Digital Transformation

Previous work has economically motivated and proposed a measurement information infrastructure (MII) as a means of digitally transforming the measurement information economy and enhancing interoperability within the international quality infrastructure's context. The NCSLI 141 MII & Automation Committee has identified metrological documents to digitalize and has proposed several MII-document design requirements. One design criterion, data-completeness, intends to ensure that MII documents include all information available on a calibration and measurement capability, measuring system, or measurement result. This paper argues that such data completeness will enhance digital documents' economic and metrological value relative to simply digitalizing existing work flows that omit information considered burdensome for manual processing. The paper considers digital enhancements to traceability, modeling, and numeric precision relative to non-digitalized documents and suggests more complete content.