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Recent Developments in Metadata at the IMF

Recent Developments in Metadata at the IMF. Nalini Umashankar Statistical Information Management Division International Monetary Fund March, 2010. Investments in Metadata. DSBB metadata collection SDMX implementation Economic Data Warehouse- IMF.Stat Metastore Schemalogic

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Recent Developments in Metadata at the IMF

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  1. Recent Developments in Metadata at the IMF Nalini Umashankar Statistical Information Management Division International Monetary Fund March, 2010

  2. Investments in Metadata DSBB metadata collection SDMX implementation Economic Data Warehouse-IMF.Stat Metastore Schemalogic Metadata in Operational Databases

  3. Structural MetadataSDMX SDMX-Balance of Payment (BOP) DSD SDMX Data exchange with FAO and OECD SDMX Government Finance Statistics DSD (in progress) SDMX Principal Global Indicators (PGI)

  4. Structural MetadataIMF.Stat • IMF.Stat Dimensions • Country and Group • Economic Concept • Data Source • Unit • Status • Time, Frequency

  5. Structural MetadataMetastore • Central repository for structural and referential metadata • Metadata source for data warehouse (IMF.Stat ) • Maps production metadata to the authoritative source • Includes OECD’s forty-two (42) metadata type • Support metadata attachment levels for data set, country, concept, individual observation

  6. Structural MetadataSchemalogic • Enterprise repository of structural metadata (and other business vocabularies) • Feeds IMF.Stat, operational databases • Vocabularies in production by end-April: • Country/Region • Economic Concepts

  7. Referential MetadataDSBB Metadata in DQAF format (Data Quality Assessment Framework) 67 SDDS countries and 98 GDDS countries Automation of metadata collection via ICS More comprehensive metadata planned Efforts to repurpose DSBB metadata in publications

  8. Referential MetadataMetastore • Metastore source of referential metadata for IMF.Stat • Classification of metadata into 42 types • Metadata attached at granular levels: • Dataset • Country • Concept • Observation • Combinations • Breaksymbols in IMF.Stat with explanations

  9. Metadata Issues Governance of structural metadata Alignment with SDMX standards Standards for Metadata Operational databases adopting standards Referential metadata from DSBB Operational metadata

  10. Questions?

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