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 (February 2008) have been released for a three-month public comment period ending on 31 May 2008.
The Guidelines are supplemented by five annexes:
Additional information is provided in the following files:
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Mapping of SDMX Cross-Domain Concepts to metadata frameworks at international organisations (IMF-Data Quality Assessment Framework, Eurostat-SDMX Metadata Structure and OECD-Metastore)
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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.
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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
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