Forthcoming international meetings with coverage of SDMX

Three international statistical meetings in April 2008 include coverage of SDMX and related issues. The documents and presentations will be available through the following links:
> UNECE-Eurostat-OECD Meeting on Management of Statistical Information Systems, MSIS 2008
> UNECE-Eurostat-OECD Work Session on statistical metadata, METIS 2008
> OECD Expert Group on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange

UN Statistical Commission: SDMX is preferred standard

At the 39th Session of the UN Statistical Commission, attended by delegations from about 130 countries and 40 international agencies, SDMX was recognized as the preferred standard for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata. The Commission also encouraged implementation by national and international statistical organisations.
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Draft SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines - Comments Welcome

Draft SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines (February 2008) have been released for a three-month public comment period ending on 31 May 2008.

PDF file Content-Oriented Guidelines

The Guidelines are supplemented by five annexes:

PDF file Annex 1 - Cross-Domain Concepts
PDF file Annex 2 - Cross-Domain Code Lists
PDF file Annex 3 - Statistical Subject-Matter Domains
PDF file Annex 4 - Metadata Common Vocabulary
PDF file Annex 5 - SDMX-ML for Content-Oriented Guidelines (zip file)

Additional information is provided in the following files:

  1. Mapping of SDMX Cross-Domain Concepts to metadata frameworks at international organisations (IMF-Data Quality Assessment Framework, Eurostat-SDMX Metadata Structure and OECD-Metastore)
  2. Use of Cross-Domain Concepts in Data and Metadata Structure Definitions

A form is provided in order to facilitate your comments being sent as an email attachment to the SDMX Secretariat at secretariat [at] sdmx.org.

Reports about SDMX to UN Statistical Commission

Two reports involving SDMX topics are to be presented at the 39th Session of the UN Statistical Commission in New York in February 2008:

> Report of the SDMX Sponsors Committee on Common Open Standards for the Exchange and Sharing of Data and Metadata

> The Work of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (about 25 international organisations), which has adopted SDMX for data and metadata exchange