Organizing metadata work Jacob Chr. Solander jcs@dst.dk 2013

Who do what? Dissemination Centre and the subject matter divisions work very closely together Yearly meetings 5 contact person in Dissemination Centre 13 Subject matter divisions 12 Subject areas 3000 tables in the statbank.dk

Centralized Vs. Decentralized Decentralized updating of data, table headlines and contact information Centralized updating of metadata and codes To ensure consistency throughout the statbank and www.dst.dk Reuse of metadata Municipalities Country names and codes NACE - Industry codes Other standard codes

Creating value pooles (VP) Few value pooles (VP) From where a lot of value sets (VM) are made. Value poole for Regions, municipalities and country parts (VPxxx) Value set for regions (VMxxx) Value set for regions and municipalities (VMxxy) Value set (VMx)

From the idea to the final table Request from the subject matter divisions A new table Editing of a table Renaming an existing table By e-mail or phone or a meeting Disseminations centre Spreadsheet with info: English metadata ! Contact person ! Release date ! By e-mail or phone or a meeting Reuse of metadata ? Sorting code ? English metadata ? Subject matter divisions

From the idea to the final table Presentations from Subject matter division Using the metadata tool The final result as a table

The metadata tool

Use of metadata in dst.dk Metadata from the statbank are widely used in www.dst.dk E.g. Subject pages Key figures Newsletter NYT Metadata from statbank.dk