Meeting of the OECD Expert Group on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange, 6-7 April 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

Welcome and opening

Part 1: Explaining SDMX

Presentation (PPT)

1.

The SDMX information model - a pedagogical explanation for statisticians, Metadata Technology (Ltd)

2.

The SDMX poster series, ONS (Office for National Statistics), UK 

3.

 Getting started with SDMX, Eurostat

Part 2: Update on the technical standards and contents

1.

Report from the SDMX standards team on the technical SDMX standards v/2.0, Metadata Technology (Ltd)

2.

The SDMX tool-kit, Metadata Technology (Ltd)

The contents oriented SDMX material: http://www.sdmx.org/news/news.aspx?id=67

Presentation (PPT)

Presentation (PPT)

a. Cross-domain concepts, IMF
b. Common subject-matter domains, OECD
c. Metadata Common Vocabulary (MCV), Eurostat

Part 3: The exchange of statistical data and metadata actually taking place between the OECD and member countries. This includes reviewing reporting problems, the techniques being used, their performance, and suggestions for improvements.

1.

Report on data reporting to the OECD, OECD 

2.

Experience and plans of NSOs (and international organisations) in working with SDMX standards for data collection, data sharing or dissemination

Presentation (PPT)
Presentation (PPT)

a. Information exchange between OECD and México using SMDX, Mexico
b. Plans for the Statistic Office of the Republic of Slovenia to work with SDMX Standards, Slovenia

Part 4: Exchange of metadata

1.

Metadata strategies of NSOs and international organisations

a. From Metadata to METIS, Kazakhstan

2. 

Exchange of statistical metadata between different metadata systems, Statistics Sweden, European Central Bank (ECB) & OECD
Towards an SDMX User Guide: Exchange of statistical data and metadata between different systems, national and international

Presentation (PPT)

Towards a normalised, domain-independent model for modelling the contents of statistical data: How to design ”correct” and globally consistent Data Structure Definitions (also called ”key families”), Statistics Sweden

Part 5: Implementations of SDMX standards for statistical data and metadata exchange and sharing

1.

Demo of the OECD.Stat SDMX web service, OECD

2.

SDMX as the data model for Statistics New Zealand, Statistics New Zealand

Presentation (PPT)
Paper (PDF)

3.

The Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH), World Bank

4.

Exchange between IMF and OECD, IMF and OECD

5.

Exchange between Statistics Norway and OECD, Statistics Norway

6.

NAWWE, OECD

7.

The Eurosystem joint dissemination of statistics: an application of SDMX-ML, ECB

8.

SODI (SDMX Open Data Interchange), Eurostat

9.

ComTrade project (OECD and UNSD), OECD