NACE SP 0507:2014

Joint NACE/PODS standard. The objective of this standard practice is the development of a new external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA) data interchange data structure in order to enable electronic integration of data and standardize reporting of ECDA data within the pipeline industry to allow transfer between different software packages or computer systems. This is expected to minimize difficulty in using various programs to analyze or graph data and allow for comparison of data gathered for a given pipeline segment at different times, regardless of the software system used to collect it. The format outlined is the commonly used American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) comma delimited text file, which is adaptable to all data processing systems. . This standard is expected to serve as a template for future internal corrosion direct assessment (ICDA) and stress corrosion cracking direct assessment (SCCDA) data interchange standards.