United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference for European Statisticians Statistical Metadata in a corporate context Jan Fischer Paris, 10-12 June 2008 Czech Statistical Office.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference for European Statisticians Statistical Metadata in a corporate context Jan Fischer Paris, 10-12 June 2008 Czech Statistical Office Purpose of this discussion It is clear that good metadata management provides benefits across the entire statistical organization, but the challenge is to communicate this message. Slide 2 Conference for European Statisticians Plenary session, 10-12 June 2008 Metadata drivers Slide 3 Economic globalization Increasing use of official statistics Rapid growth of information technologies Demand for better quality of statistics Need to increase efficiency Reducing response burden Conference for European Statisticians Plenary session, 10-12 June 2008 Role of metadata systems Slide 4 Strategic direction of the statistical office Managing business processes Improving and communicating quality Integrating information systems Improving international comparability Enabling data sharing/exchange (SDMX) Conference for European Statisticians Plenary session, 10-12 June 2008 Challenges Shift from technical to content-oriented approach Direct participation of subject-matter experts Leading role of top managers Transition to corporate metadata systems Communication with users Implementing standards (SDMX, etc.) Slide 5 Conference for European Statisticians Plenary session, 10-12 June 2008 Discussion What message to communicate? Metadata are important for corporate management for quality of official statistics for achieving cost efficiency for end users Metadata systems must be maintained metadata system administration, automation business processes, organization of the office Metadata provide an infrastructure SDMX implementation Slide 6 Conference for European Statisticians Plenary session, 10-12 June 2008 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference for European Statisticians Thank you Czech Statistical Office