Another SDMX related topic under review was the integration of SDMX Reference Infrastructure (SDMX-RI) within .Stat. is to provide the infrastructure and supporting tools to allow production of SDMX modelled data from existing data reference and dissemination databases.
A presentation by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) focused on how the Mapping Assistant SDMX-RI tool could be used in .Stat. The Mapping Assistant is intended to facilitate the mapping between israel rcs data the information held in a database of a dissemination environment such as .Stat, and the structural metadata for a dataset provided by an SDMX-ML Data Structure Definition (DSD). (Broadly, a DSD describes a dataset in terms of concepts (dimensions) and code lists (dimension members)). These mappings are maintained in a Mapping Store within the system.
It is hoped that setting up such a mapping store within .Stat would lead to users being able to browse a ‘catalogue’ of DSDs for datasets held by the database, via API or web interface, thereby assisting the user in the discovery of data. The mapping store could also be extended to include reference metadata, to further enhance the discovery of relevant datasets.