Practical Experience Towards SDMX at the OECD Lars

Practical Experience Towards SDMX at the OECD Lars Thygesen May, 2004

What is SDMX? n Statistical Data and Metadata e. Xchange – www. sdmx. org BIS, ECB, EUROSTAT, IMF, OECD, UN, and the World Bank n develop and employ more efficient business processes for exchange and sharing of statistical information and metadata n Using emerging technologies n Standards n May, 2004 2

And why is OECD interested? Questionnaires: n heavy reporting burden n similar questionnaires for other IOs n timeliness n error prone n heavy burden on OECD n May, 2004 3

Envisaged benefits more efficient reporting, i. e. less burden on countries as well as on OECD n automated procedures which are less error prone n more timely reporting and, consequently, dissemination n enhanced coordination with other international organisations n May, 2004 4

Contributions to four projects Standards for time series data exchange (GESMES/TS) n Case study on standards for statistical data and metadata exchange n Common vocabulary for statistical metadata (MCV) n Development of a model for metadata repositories n May, 2004 5

Aligned Projects Exchange of national accounts data between the OECD and Member countries (NAWWE) n Joint UN/OECD Foreign Trade Statistics project (Comtrade) n Coupling of elements of OECD’s Statistical Information System n Wider use of Web Services n May, 2004 6

NAWWE: Data Flow OECD Web Server SDMX Based XML Schemas ……. XML Data Files Structural XML CANADA …… Navigation XML Files Validated By Schema Web Application STRUCTURE …… Upload to SNA Database or Output to Other Format Defines Dimensions and Data Structure Excel Tables AUSTRALIA …… XML Data Files XML Files Copied to Server Copied XML Files CANADA AUSTRALIA …… May, 2004 7 Content

Conclusions from the Expert Group Meeting 1 -2 April 2004 XML and web services very important in standardising exchange n A group of countries and OECD to specify and implement a Web Service for exchange between OECD and NSOs n Great hopes in SDMX initiative n Group to engage itself in the review of the coming SDMX standards. n Need for future work. n May, 2004 8

What’s new SDMX Launches New Web Site n Review of Draft SDMX standards v/1. 0 n May, 2004 9

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