10th Expert Group Meeting on Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange
January 25-28, 2021
The 10th Expert Group Meeting on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) was hosted by the IMF virtually during January 25-28, 2021 .
The goal of the Meeting was to help evolve the SDMX standard to respond to identified issues in existing data exchange and data sharing scenarios. The workshop offered an excellent occasion for SDMX experts in the community of official statistics agencies, central banks, and beyond to discuss and influence the further development of SDMX standards and various statistical guidelines related to SDMX.
The meeting was rich in content with 35 presentations covering six critical areas of the standard: (i) the new features of SDMX 3.0; (ii) SDMX use cases from countries and international organizations; (iii) a comparison of alternative modeling approaches; (iv) a stocktaking of existing and potential SDMX tools; (v) referential metadata models; (iv) and the relationship of SDMX with other international standards.
This was the latest in a series of biennial SDMX Expert meetings, and the workshop format of this meeting was open to anyone who was interested in learning about the technical discussions around the development of SDMX.
The summary report, program, and presentations of this event are available on this page. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@sdmx.org.
Program
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January 25, 2021 (EST) |
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Opening Session |
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8:20 am |
Welcoming Remarks – Louis Marc Ducharme,
Chief Statistician and Data Officer
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8:30 am |
Strategic Vision of SDMX 3.0 – Bruno Tissot, Head of Statistics and Research Support, BIS |
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SESSION I: What is SDMX 3.0 going to be? This session will provide an overview of the objectives of SDMX 3.0, its timeline, the process used for managing the project across different organizations, challenges, and lessons learned. The technical details of each feature developed will be presented in thematic presentations, including Q&A. Co-chairs: Rafael Schmidt and Boris Vitez (BIS) |
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8:45 am |
Overview of SDMX 3.0 Project Glenn Tice (Metadata Technologies and SDMX 3.0 Project Manager) |
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9:00 am |
Semantic Versioning Jens Dosse (OECD) |
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9:25 am |
Reference Metadata Exchange Matt Nelson (Metadata Technologies) |
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9:50 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
New Features to Support Microdata Stratos Nikoloutsos (Agilis) |
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10:25 am |
Enhanced Artefacts Alvaro Diez Soto (Eurostat) |
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10:50 am |
Improved Codelists’ Handling Edgardo Greising (ILO) |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:25 am |
Support for Geospatial Information Juan Muñoz (INEGI) |
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11:50 am |
Enhanced SDMX API Xavier Sosnovsky (BIS) |
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12:15 pm |
Deprecation of Obsolete Formats Jens Dosse (OECD) |
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12:40 pm |
Session Wrap-up: The Added Value of SDMX 3.0 Edgardo Greising (ILO) |
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1:00 pm |
Session Ends |
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January 26, 2021 (EST) |
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SESSION II: Use Cases This session will present a stock-taking of different use cases from national and international agencies that currently use SDMX for data collection, international data sharing, and data dissemination. Chair: Abdulla Gozalov (UNSD) |
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8:35 am |
Istat’s Public Data Hub Francesco Rizzo (Istat) |
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8:55 am |
How to Make SDMX-SDG Works for Africa: The Africa Information Highway Experience Momar Kouta (African Development Bank) |
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9:15 am |
National Accounts Data Exchange: The Experience of International Data Cooperation Nadezhda Vlahova (Eurostat) |
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9:35 am |
Break |
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9:50 am |
Standards-first Approaches to Building Open Data Systems: the UNICEF Experience Yves Jaques (UNICEF) |
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10:10 am |
Using SDMX with the Open SDG Platform Lucy Gwilliam (UK Office for National Statistics) |
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10:30 am |
SIS-CC .Stat Suite use case Chan Samrith (CAMSTAT, Cambodia) |
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10:50 am |
Q&A for the session |
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11:00 am |
Session Ends |
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SESSION III: Modeling Approaches This session will present different multi-dimensional modeling approaches developed by the SDMX community and will discuss their uses, challenges, and prospects. Chair: Siddhesh Kaushik (World Bank) |
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11:10 am |
Multi-Dimensional Modeling Gyorgy Gyomai (OECD) |
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11:30 am |
Comparison of Modeling Approaches Abdulla Gozalov (UNSD) |
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11:50 am |
ECOFIN DSD Yamil Vargas (IMF) |
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12:10 pm |
Break |
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12:20 pm |
SDG DSD Juan Muñoz (INEGI) |
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12:40 pm |
Census Hub DSD Luca Gramaglia (Eurostat) |
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1:00 pm |
Q&A for the session |
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1:10 pm |
Session Ends |
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January 27, 2021 (EST) |
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SESSION IV: Tools and Platforms
The session will present the tools and platforms developed
for SDMX, identify potential gaps,
Chair: Marco Marini (IMF) |
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8:35 am |
Stocktaking of SDMX Tools David Barraclough (OECD) |
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8:55 am |
Fusion Metadata Registry - The next generation of metadata management Xavier Sosnovsky (BIS) |
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9:15 am |
SDMX-based Automatic Data Collection Platform Khaled AlAjmi (IMF) |
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9:35 am |
Break |
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9:50 am |
SMART Tool and DSD Constructor Shutong Ding (ILO) |
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10:10 am |
SDMX in a Big Data Architecture Jose Deodoro and Ryoichi Yamakoshi (IMF) |
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10:30 am |
SDMX Meets Big Data Technologies Stefano Pambianco and Almir Delic (ECB) |
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10:50 am |
Q&A for the session |
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11:00 am |
Session Ends |
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SESSION V: Referential Metadata The session will discuss the experience and challenges with referential metadata and how SDMX 3.0 can help improve exchange between international organizations. Chair: Marta Nagy-Rothengass (Eurostat) |
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11:10 am |
Metadata Exchange in the European Statistical System: Status and Future
Luca Gramaglia (Eurostat) |
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11:30 am |
SDG Reference Metadata Exchange Abdulla Gozalov and Matthias Reister (UNSD) |
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11:50 am |
New Use Cases for Reference Metadata Exchange with SDMX 3.0 Matt Nelson (Metadata Technologies) and Edgardo Greising (ILO) |
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12:10 pm |
Q&A for the session |
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12:20 pm |
Session Ends |
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January 28, 2021 (EST) |
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SESSION VI: SDMX in a Business Architecture This session will present how SDMX fits in the data lifecycle management. Each slot will allow for a short Q&A. A Q&A across all session will be done in the end of the session. Co-chairs: David Barraclough (OECD) and Daniel Suranyi (ECB) |
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8:35 am |
SDMX in the Standards Landscape Zoltan Vereczke (Statistical Office Hungary) |
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9:00 am |
Data Validation and Transformation Support in SDMX (VTL) Stefano Pambianco (ECB) and Vincenzo del Vecchio (Bank of Italy) |
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9:20 am |
Geospatial Support in SDMX Juan Muñoz (INEGI) and Hannes Reuter (Eurostat) |
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9:40 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
Going from Disaggregated to Aggregated Data Anastassia Samsonova (OECD) |
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10:20 am |
Role of SDMX in a Single Metadata Management Architecture Daniel Suranyi (ECB) |
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10:40 am |
Q&A for the session |
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10:50 am |
Session Ends |
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Closing Session |
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11:00 am |
Panel Discussion on the Future of SDMX
This panel will discuss the key takeaways of this meeting,
including a Q&A session
Moderator: Laurence Allain
(IMF, and SDMX Secretariat Chair)
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11:45 am |
Closing Remarks Eduardo Barredo Capelot, Director Methodology, Dissemination and Cooperation, Eurostat, and Chair of SDMX Sponsor Committee |
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12:00 pm |
Experts Group meeting ends |
Organizers: IMF-SDMX Team on behalf of the Organizing Committee
Email: SDMX@IMF.org