Meeting of the OECD Expert Group on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange, 10-11 May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

Part 1: The exchange of statistical data and metadata actually taking place between the OECD and member countries. This includes reviewing the techniques currently being used, their performance, reporting problems and suggestions for improvements.

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Report on data and metadata transmission to the OECD, Lars Thygesen, OECD

Part 2: Update on the technical standards, guidelines and tools

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

The SDMX tool-kit, Arofan Gregory, Metadata Technology (Ltd)

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The Excel to SDMX Generator Tool, Jens Dossé, OECD

The contents oriented SDMX material

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a. Cross-domain concepts : What has happened since last year? Consolidation, common code-lists, Lars Thygesen, OECD

b. Common subject-matter domains, Lars Thygesen, OECD

c. Metadata Common Vocabulary (MCV), Marco Pellegrino, Eurostat

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User Guide

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a. Getting started with SDMX -  Marco Pellegrino, Eurostat.

b. An SDMX guideline: A model for structuring of statistical data and metadata to be shared between diverse national and international statistical systems. Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden, and Lars Thygesen, OECD

c. Building SDMX Data Structure Definitions based on a generic conceptual model for contents: Experience with the joint Eurostat-Unesco-OECD education statistics questionnaire, Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden, Michael Bruneforth, Unesco.

Part 3: Practical implementations of SDMX 

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Exchange between IMF and OECD

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Exchange of data between Statistics Norway and OECD. Marianne Dysterud, Statistics Norway

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Implementation of SDMX in Mexico;  Work in progress, Juan Muñoz López, INEGI

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A data sharing pilot between the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the European Central Bank based on the SDMX standards. Christos Androvitsaneas (ECB), Daniel Gillman, US Bureau of Labor Statistics

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SDMX Istat Framework, Francesco Rizzo, ISTAT

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Data and Metadata Standards for Monitoring Human Development Indicators. Integration of SDMX standards with standards for data sources and digital maps.  Nicolas C. Pron, DevInfo, UNICEF on behalf of UNDG and Kris S. Oswalt, DevInfo.

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Enhancing the SDMX web service for OECD.Stat, Jens Dossé, OECD

SDMX data visualisation tools - Java Application, Jens Dossé, OECD

Dynamic Graphics via SDMX - Adobe Flex pilot, Lynda Hawe, OECD 

Dynamic graphics from SDMX. Xavier Sosnowska, ECB

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National Accounts World Wide Exchange (NAWWE): The hub solution, Lars Thygesen, OECD

Part 4: Conclusions and Future Work

Discussion is expected to result in recommendations for future work by participating countries and international organisations, to be considered by the OECD Secretariat and the OECD Statistics Committee.