Transcript METIS 2008: Status Report Outcomes of recent meetings and summary of actions UNECE.

METIS 2008: Status Report
Outcomes of recent meetings and summary of actions
UNECE
Recent meetings
 CES Bureau; February 2007
• Review of the mandate and progress on CMF
• Creating Steering Group on METIS
 CES Bureau; October 2007
• ToR for the Steering Group
• Idea of including metadata on CES plenary session in 2008
 METIS workshop; July 2007
• Part C; Statistical Business Process Cycle
• Recommendation for the future work
 CES Bureau; February 2008
• Final arrangements for the CES plenary session in 2008
Ongoing work
 Paper for the CES plenary session in 2008:
ECE/CES/2008/3
Message to senior management:
(a) Metadata are important;
(b) Metadata must be maintained;
(c) Metadata systems provide infrastructure for
statistical information systems.
 METIS wiki – case studies:
http://www.unece.org/stats/metis/wiki
Future work
 Include metadata advocacy in the METIS Work
Programme
 Continue the exchange of experiences
 Common Metadata Framework (CMF):
– Make Part B a comprehensive reference – which standard
for what purpose;
– Populate Part D with more examples of good practices in
metadata systems implementation.
– Solicit more case studies for Part C
– Publish Part A
Issues from METIS 2007 workshop
 Common terminology: standardised definition of terms such
as “survey”, “data collection”, “statistical activities”, …
• Discussion on the SDMX MCV (topic 2 (ii))
 Classification/typology of statistical metadata
• Discussion of the WP.7 (topic 2 (ii))
 Generic Statistical Business Process Model
• Discussion of the WP.17 (topic 2 (iii))