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Taeke Gjaltema, last updated on 26 Sep, 2025
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3-5 December 2024, Belgrade, Serbia
The 2024 UNECE/SORS/CIS-STAT Workshop on Metadata Driven Statistical Production was hosted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) in Belgrade from 3 to 5 December 2024.
The meeting was organised as part of the UNECE Regular Programme for Technical Cooperation (RPTC) for 2024. It built on work developed under the High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics and recommendations from Global Assessments and Sector Reviews conducted in EECCA countries.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the advantages of metadata driven statistical production. Participants shared experiences on implementing a metadata driven system and the advantages and how to overcome obstacles and issues on implementing it. The workshop included expert presentations and interactive discussion on strategies, best practices and their experiences as well as next steps.
Timetable
| Day 1: Tuesday 3 December | Documents | |
| 09:30 | Opening Branko Josipovic (SORS), Konstantin Laykam (CIS Stat) & Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE) | |
| 09:50 | Round table introductions: introduction of participants | |
| 10:10 | Session 1: Towards a metadata driven statistical production: Status, Plans and expected gains Chair: Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE) | |
| 10:10 | Metadata Driven Statistical Production IST - Collection and processing tool. Ivana Trajković (Statistical office of the Republic of Serbia, SORS) | EN | RU |
| 10:30 | Sub Session A: Metadata-based statistical production. CIS-STAT Preparing linked open statistical data in a semantically rich environment. Yuri Akatkin (CIS-STAT Expert) The Role of Metadata in Data Integration in Statistics (using the example of the International Statistical Data and Metadata Hub of the CIS-STAT). Natalia Ermakova (CIS-STAT) | |
| 11:00 | coffee break | |
| 11:20 | Development of the metadata system in the State Statistics Committee. Agshin Aliyev & Vugar Mammadalizade (The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbijan) | EN | RU |
| 11:35 | The development of a metadata management system in accordance with international standards. Gulmira Ermekbaeva & Shirin Ulanbekova (National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic) | EN | RU |
| 11:50 | Statistical production on basis of metadata. How Metadata is Transforming Data Collection and Analysis. Nare Davtyan (Armstat, Armenia) | EN | RU |
| 12:05 | Moving to Metadata-Driven Statistical Production in Albania - Status, Plans, and Expected Gains. Denis Kristo (National Statistics Office of Albania) | EN | RU |
| 12:20 | Discussion | |
| 12:35 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:50 | Metadata Driven Production in Geostat. Levan Tserediani (National Statistics Office of Georgia, Geostat) | EN | RU |
| 14:05 | Development of metadata in Kazakhstan through IIS “e-Statistics”. Arman Kunashev (Bureau of National Statistics/ Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan) | EN | RU |
| 14:20 | Developing a metadata system as a core of the Integrated Automated Information System in Moldova: plans and challenges. Vasile Bujor (National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova) | EN | RU |
| 14:35 | Using Metadata: Experience of Uzbekistan. Shaxboz Djanadilov (Statistics Agency Under the President of the Republic Of Uzbekistan) | EN | RU |
| 14:50 | Discussion | |
| 15:05 | coffee break | |
| 15:20 | end of day 1 | |
| 15:30 | Social Event | |
| Day 2: Wednesday 4 December | Documents | |
| 10:00 | Recap day one UNECE | |
| 10:01 | Presentations Day 1 Moldova and Uzbekistan (see day 1) | |
| 10:30 | Using standards to develop a system for coherent metadata for production and dissemination in Denmark. Anne Kaag Andersen (Statistics Denmark) | EN | RU |
| 10:50 | The designed governance for a central metadata system, Claudia Brunini (Istat, Italy) | EN | RU |
| 11:10 | coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Sub Session B: Publication and dissemination of open statistical data. CIS-STAT Publication of open data: the experience of the Republic of Belarus. Tsimafei Zhyharau (National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus) SDMX Data and Metadata Dissemination Experience in Rosstat. Yulia Sunaeva (Rosstat, Russian Federation) Data integration and dissemination. Vladimir Nekrasov (CIS-STAT expert) | |
12:15 | Group discussions on Expected Gains and available tools (3 groups) | |
| 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 | Reporting back from group discussions | |
| 14:15 | Session 2: Issues and obstacles to moving to metadata driven statistical production (HR and production/technology) Chair: Taeke Gjaltema | |
| 14:15 | Issues and Obstacles to Moving to Metadata Driven Statistical Production. Ivana Trajković (Statistical office of the Republic of Serbia, SORS) presented in Session 1 Serbian experience. Olja Musić (Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia) | EN | RU EN | RU |
| 14:45 | Issues and obstacles to moving to metadata driven statistical production. Vasile Bujor (National Bureau of Statistics Republic of Moldova) | EN | RU |
| 15:00 | Problems in implementing metadata through IIS “e-Statistics”. Arman Kunashev (Bureau of National Statistics/Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan) | EN | RU |
| 15:15 | Discussion | |
| 15:30 | coffee break | |
| 15:50 | Issues and Obstacles to Moving Metadata Driven Production in Geostat. Levan Tserediani (National Statistics Office of Georgia, Geostat) | EN | RU |
| 16:05 | Challenges and Obstacles in Transitioning to Metadata-Driven Statistical Production. Denis Kristo (National Statistics Office of Albania) | EN | RU |
| 16:20 | Issues and obstacles to move to a metadata driven statistical production. Aida Martirosyan (Armstat, Armenia) | EN | RU |
| 16:35 | Development of a metadata management system in accordance with international standards: Challenges and constraints. Gulmira Ermekbaeva (National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic) | EN | RU |
| 16:50 | Expected Issues. Vugar Mammadalizade (The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan) | EN | RU |
| 17:05 | Discussion | |
| 17:20 | end day two | |
| Day 3: Thursday 5 December | Documents | |
| 10:00 | Recap day two | |
| 10:10 | UNECE: Recent developments GSIM. Christopher Jones (UNECE) | EN | RU |
| 10:30 | Group dicsussions on how to overcome issues and obstacles | |
| 11:15 | coffee break | |
| 11:35 | reporting back | |
| 11:55 | Session 3: General Discussion on the way forward and what is needed (training, tools, sharing etc.) | |
| 12:15 | Conclusions | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Session C: Information and cybersecurity in data exchange - CIS-STAT Chair: (CIS-STAT) Ensuring information and cybersecurity in the process of data exchange. Alexey Gabov (CIS-STAT invited expert) | |
| 14:00 | Plenary sharing of national experience with cybersecurity and data exchange | |
| 14:30 | Summary of Session | |
| 14:45 | Conclusions Workshop | |
| 15:00 | end of the workshop | |