1. Organizing metadata work
Jacob Chr. Solander
2013

2. 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

3. 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
Reuse of metadata
Municipalities
Country names and codes
NACE - Industry codes
Other standard codes

4. 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)

5. 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 or phone
or a meeting
Disseminations centre
Spreadsheet with info:
English metadata !
Contact person !
Release date !
By or phone
or a meeting
Reuse of metadata ?
Sorting code ?
English metadata ?
Subject matter divisions

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

7. The metadata tool

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