The SDMX Technical Working Group (TWG) submitted VTL (Validation and Transformation Language) version 1.1 for public review in October 2016. The original deadline for public review has been extended until 6 January 2017 in order to allow time for submitting more comments (at
twg@sdmx.org).
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The
summary report of the 8th OECD-INEGI SDMX Experts Meeting which took place in October 2016 in Aguascalientes (Mexico) is now available.
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In many cases, data that are exchanged in SDMX data messages do not relate to the calendar year. However, many statistical system implementations require that data are mapped to and stored as the real calendar. These new
guidelines address this problem.
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The SDMX Technical Working Group (TWG) submits VTL (Validation and Transformation Language) version 1.1 for public review. The review period extends until 17th December 2016. Feedback is welcome.
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The newly published "
Guidelines on coding time transformations in SDMX" (Version 1.0, September 2016) describe two methods that may be used to code a time transformation, defined as a time-related operation performed on a time series, solely involving observations of that time series. Examples of such time transformations are growth rates, cumulative sums over several periods and moving averages. Furthermore two new codes have been added to the cross-domain
code list for Observation Status in order to represent under-coverage (i.e. data included in another category) and over-coverage (i.e. category including data from another category).
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