19-21 January 2009, hosted by the OECD in Paris

Towards building an SDMX community

More than 240 experts from 65 countries and nearly 20 international organisations joined together to launch 2009 with a highly successful conference on ways to use SDMX standards and guidelines with mainstream technology to support statistical processes.

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SDMX CONTENT-ORIENTED GUIDELINES (2009) are now available following an extended public review period.

The SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines recommend practices for creating interoperable data and metadata sets using the SDMX technical standards. They are envisaged to be applicable generically across statistical subject-matter domains. The Guidelines focus on the harmonization of specific concepts and terminology that are common to a large number of statistical domains. Such harmonisation is useful for achieving even more efficient exchange of comparable data and metadata and builds on the experience gained in implementations to date.

Content-Oriented Guidelines

The Guidelines are supplemented by five annexes:

	Annex 1 – Cross-Domain Concepts
	Annex 2 – Cross-Domain Code Lists
	Annex 3 – Statistical Subject-Matter Domains
	Annex 4 – Metadata Common Vocabulary
	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
3. A Disposition Log of comments and suggestions directly received by the SDMX Secretariat.

Comments and suggestions for updating the Guidelines are always welcome and should be sent to the SDMX Secretariat at secretariat [at] sdmx.org using this form.

The SDMX User Guide aims to provide practical explanations and guidance to users and potential users of SDMX.

The new release 2009.1 is now available on the User Guide page.

The SDMX sponsors are pleased to announce the second SDMX Global Conference. The conference will take place from 19 to 21 January 2009 in Paris at the OECD Headquarters, 2 rue André-Pascal, Paris 16.

Main issues to be discussed are the SDMX standards and guidelines and their implementation at international and national level. In addition, workshops will be organised aiming at increasing the knowledge of SDMX at all levels. The first SDMX Global Conference took place in Washington on 9-11 January 2007 (programme and documents here).

The SDMX Global Conference is addressed to National and International Statistical Organisations as well as Central Banks. In addition, vendors of information systems and data brokers will be welcome.

The SDMX sponsors also call on all parties who want to contribute actively to the conference to submit a short abstract by 30 November 2008 to the conference office at sdmx [at] oecd.org. Any suggestions regarding the conference programme will also be welcome.

Registration forms and other information are now available on the Conference website.