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DRAFT SDMX CONTENT-ORIENTED GUIDELINES (February 2008) have been released for a three-month public comment period ending on 31 May 2008.

PDF file Content-Oriented Guidelines

The Guidelines are supplemented by five annexes:

PDF file Annex 1 – Cross-Domain Concepts
PDF file Annex 2 – Cross-Domain Code Lists
PDF file Annex 3 – Statistical Subject-Matter Domains
PDF file Annex 4 – Metadata Common Vocabulary
PDF file 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

A form is provided in order to facilitate your comments being sent as an email attachment to the SDMX Secretariat at secretariat [at] sdmx.org.

The previous draft of the Content-Oriented Guidelines is available here for reference:

DRAFT SDMX CONTENT-ORIENTED GUIDELINES (March 2006)

PDF file Framework
PDF file Cross-Domain Concepts
PDF file Statistical Subject-Matter Domains
PDF file Metadata Common Vocabulary
PDF file ZIP file of all Draft SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines