Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX)

Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) is the format recommended by IRES for the international exchange and sharing of energy data and metadata. Recommendation (tracker row X/10.28): to ensure a speedy and accurate data transfer to international and regional organizations, it is recommended that countries use the SDMX format in exchanging and sharing their data [IRES, Ch. X, para. 10.28, PDF p. 147, 2018].

What SDMX provides

The SDMX technical standards and content-oriented guidelines provide common formats and nomenclatures for the exchange and sharing of statistical data and metadata using modern technology. Dissemination of national data and metadata using web technology and SDMX standards is encouraged as a means to reduce the international reporting burden and to increase the efficiency of international data exchange [IRES, Ch. X, footnote 81, PDF p. 147, 2018].

IRES gives SDMX one paragraph of direct treatment in Chapter X, so this page is marked confidence: medium; the fuller conceptual context (structural vs. reference metadata, the metadata pyramid) lives on Metadata, which references SDMX as the recommended exchange standard in its own Chapter IX discussion [IRES, Ch. IX, para. 9.41, PDF p. 139, 2018].

Related

• Dissemination — Section F (“International reporting”) within which the SDMX recommendation sits
• Metadata — the broader metadata concepts SDMX standardizes the exchange of
• IRES Chapter X — Dissemination — the Chapter X digest this page supports