This part of ISO 8000 provides guidance for the application of product data quality for shape (PDQ-S), as described in ISO 10303-59. The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 8000: purpose, approach and expected usage scenarios; the structure of PDQ-S; PDQ-S schema structure; target shape model; the relationship between ISO 10303-59 and other International Standards dealing with the nominal representation of product data; the major characteristics of PDQ-S: the relationship between product data quality problems and quality criteria in PDQ-S; some examples for selecting appropriate quality criteria; ensuring conformance with PDQ-S. The following is outside the scope of this part of ISO 8000: guidance relating to the quality of product data other than shape data.