Towards Implementation of SDMX: Conference Follow-up
SDMX held an international conference in January 2007 entitled “Towards Implementation of SDMX”. The goal was to provide an overview of SDMX developments, to demonstrate practical implementations and to provide introductory capacity-building in both technical and content-oriented aspects of SDMX.
The three-day conference was held from 9-11 January 2007 and was hosted at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
As a follow up, conference materials from the first two days of presentations and the third on capacity-building appear below:
Tuesday, 9 January
1. Welcoming Remarks
Shaida Badiee (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank)
Rob Edwards (Director, Statistics Department, IMF)
2. Overview
Enrico Giovannini (Chief Statistician, OECD)
3. The implementation of the SDMX standards by the ECB and the European System of Central Banks
Werner Bier (DG-Statistics, Deputy Secretary General, ECB), Gérard Salou (ECB) and Sami Airo (Bank of Finland)
4. Eurostat’s SDMX Open Data Interchange
Pedro Diaz Muñoz, (Director, Directorate B, Statistical Methodologies and Tools, Eurostat) and Giuseppe Sindoni (Eurostat)
5. OECD’s National Accounts World Wide Exchange
Lars Thygesen (OECD)
6. Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank External Debt Hub
Ibrahim Levent (World Bank) and Rene Piche (IMF)
7. Joint UNSD-OECD ComTrade Statistics System
Zoltan Nagy (UNSD) presented by Lars Thygesen (OECD)
8. IMF’s Metadata Repositories
Rene Piche (IMF)
Wednesday, 10 January
9. Agriculture Statistics
Kafkas Caprazli (FAO) presented by Chris Nelson (standards expert)
10. Millennium Development Goals Indicators
Nicolas Pron and Kris Oswalt, UNDG/UNICEF/DevInfo
11. Education Statistics (UNESCO-Eurostat-OECD)
Michael Bruneforth and Brian Buffett (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
12. Developments in the United States: Fed Board, FedStats, NYFed
Sandra Cannon (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and Paul Asman (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
13. Developments in Mexico
Juan Muñoz (National Statistics and Geography Institute)
14. Other Implementations
Developments in Australia – Graeme Oakley (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Developments in the Philippines – C. Astrologo Jr. (National Statistical Information Center)
Developments in Vietnam – Bryan Fitzpatrick (European Technical Assistance Programme for Vietnam)
15. Panel Discussion on Future SDMX Developments
Shaida Badiee (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank)
Werner Bier (DG-Statistics, Deputy Secretary General, ECB)
Enrico Giovannini (Chief Statistician, OECD)
Pedro Diaz Muñoz, (Director, Directorate B, Statistical Methodologies and Tools, Eurostat)
Paul Van den Bergh (BIS, SDMX Chair)
Cathy Wright (Adviser, Statistics Department, IMF)
Thursday, 11 January
Capacity Building Workshop – A Basic Introduction to SDMX
1. The SDMX framework: key issues and the business case
Gabriele Becker (BIS)
2. Technical Standards
Arofan Gregory and Chris Nelson (standards experts)
3. Content-Oriented Guidelines
Rene Piche (IMF)
Capacity Building Workshop on Advanced Topics on Technical Standards
Arofan Gregory and Chris Nelson (standards experts)
Capacity Building Workshop on Advanced Topics on Content-Oriented Guidelines
1. Cross-domain concepts
Giuseppe Sindoni (Eurostat)
2. Statistical subject-matter domains and metadata common vocabulary
Lars Thygesen (OECD)
Capacity Building Room Documents:
SDMX User Guide – Working Draft Version 2007.1
