Mr. Werner Bier, chair of the SDMX Sponsors, delivered a speech at the SDMX Global Conference 2015, on behalf of the seven sponsor organisations. In his intervention, he touches upon the major achievements reached by the community and provides an outlook on the key challenges ahead.
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The SDMX Technical Working Group (TWG) has prepared a Candidate Technical Standard for SDMX-JSON Data Message for public review. The public review period extends until 29 February 2016. Feedback is welcome.
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The SDMX Technical Working Group (TWG) has released a new version v1.1.0 of the SDMX RESTful web services API specification. The public review period for this release finished on 30 June 2015.
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A dedicated task-force made up of members from the SDMX Technical (TWG) and Statistical (SWG) Working Groups, and metadata experts submits the new SDMX Glossary for public review. The review period extends until 31st December 2015 in order to allow time for consolidation of a final version at the end of 2015. Feedback is welcome.
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Updated DSDs are available for Balance of Payments (BOP), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and National Accounts (NA). A new optional attribute for international data cooperation (DISS_ORG) has been added to the DSDs and the coding for observation status, which again is fully aligned between BOP, FDI and NA, uses the latest code lists contained in the SDMX Global Registry.
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