The 7th SDMX Expert Group Meeting on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange took place in October 2014 in Seoul, South Korea.

The summary report of this meeting is available here.

The meeting focused on a number of areas, including:

• exchange of statistical data and metadata actually taking place or being implemented between organisations;
• work being carried out by the SDMX Technical and Statistical Working Groups;
• software developments which take advantage of SDMX standards;
• progress of SDMX standards, guidelines and tools, especially the content-oriented guidelines and the user guide. The role of the SDMX global registry, including use case examples;
• the role of SDMX in standards-based modernisation of official statistics and related work being carried out by the High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services (HLG).