1. Updates from the SDMX Sponsors and SDMX Secretariat
Item 3.1 – Standards Working Group meeting 2-3 July 2018

3. 6th SDMX Global Conference
Held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Oct 2-5
Hosted by UNECA and AfDB
260 participants from around 90 countries
2 days for main conference, followed by two days of capacity building
All conference documents available on SDMX.org

4. 6th SDMX Global Conference
SDMX goes global!
Presentations on SDMX implementation projects in developing countries
Many examples of successful data exchange cooperation projects

5. 6th SDMX Global Conference
"Industry panel": private sector view on the evolution of SDMX
Discussions on how to attract private sector investment on SDMX solutions

6. Capacity building & Communication
The improvement of capacity-building activities is one of the pillars of the SDMX 2020 roadmap
In the past year, the SDMX Sponsors and Secretariat have focused on this pillar. Several initiatives have been launched and are currently ongoing:
Improving communication via the publication of case studies on SDMX.org
Definition on an SDMX Expert Roster
A global SDMX training strategy to spread SDMX know-how to currently underserved regions

8. SDMX TWG work TF1: VTL implementation in SDMX TF2: Data Model
TF3: Formats (JSON and CSV)
TF4: API Web Services
TF5: SDMX and other standards
TF6: Tools validation

9. Activities of the SDMX TWG
Task Team
Goal
TF1:
Publication of VTL 2.0
Proposal for SDMX implementation of VTL
TF2:
Code List Composition Specification
Regular expressions for constraints
Linking of Hierarchical Code Lists to Artifacts
Disabling dimensions
Reengineering of Structure sets
Support of Multiple Values for Single Attribute
TF3:
Publication of SDMX-CSV
Release JSON Data Message
Public Review of JSON Structure Message
Metadata on SDMX-CSV
TF4:
Release of RESTfulAPI
SOAP Fixes
Data Availability use case
TF5:
SDMX with frictionless data packages
TF6:
First Version of the Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK) for RESTful API last published version

11. Activities of the SDMX SWG
Major update of modelling guidelines (for DSD designers)
Global metadata concept scheme and metadata structure definition proposal
Updated recommendation of CL_AREA, now including M49 additionally to ISO country codes
Review of confidentiality guidelines, including a new code for embargo data

12. SDMX SWG main current work items
Review of versioning guidelines
Review of checklist for data providers
Modelling unit of measure and derived units
Definition of concept roles
Guidelines for coding methodological changes in DSDs