1. TRAINING OF FOCAL POINTS on the CountrySTAT SYSTEM based on FENIX
CountrySTAT Platform
Overview of the Metadata in the new CountrySTAT platform
TRAINING OF FOCAL POINTS on the CountrySTAT SYSTEM based on FENIX

2. Copy Metadata from another table
Overview
Work flow
Data Management
Metadata Editor
Essential metadata
Copy Metadata from another table

3. Your table is published
Work flow
Have the data ready
Create your table following the rules
Use the right codification
CVS format
No columns with labels
CPC 2.1 HS
GAUL
CountrySTAT indicators
Unit of Measurement
DAC
Attributes
Flag
Forestry production
Fishery production
Scientific Fishery production
Have the metadata ready
Title
Subject
Data type
Domain
Your table is published
Go to the metadata editor
Upload the values
Create the DSD structure
Fill all metadata
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4. METADATA Definition: a metadata is data defining data.
Metadata on statistical data (to insure quality of data): units, source, contact, creation date, last-updated date …
And additional statistical metadata (methodology, survey/census, frequency of data collection, etc…)
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5. METADATA Metadata example Raw data without any metadata :
I don't know the meaning of the data, I suspect it's the age of the races.
Data with metadata:
With two metadata, (title – name of variable), I know the meaning of the data.
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6. Uploading tables in CountrySTAT
To start the upload of a table, login
and then click on “Data Management”

7. Uploading tables in CountrySTAT

8. Metadata Editor
The more fields are filled in, the more accurate the description of data and the retrieval of the dataset will be

9. Metadata Editor
Once the previous section has been filled, by clicking on each of these elements, new sections will appear.
These new sections need to be completed as well
 All these information enhance data quality and end-users’ trust in the related data!

10. Essential metadata
Title of your table: it is crucial to insert an explanatory title for the user. Write everything that relates to your table: e.g. Sub-national agricultural production
Be sure that your title is not identical to another already present
Automatically generated by system

11. Essential metadata Creation date is now automatically generated
Role of organization:
To view it in the "source" column of the catalog, select "producer"

12. Essential metadata
To publish a table in "not visible to the public" format, please go to Domain 6 "Accessibility" and then point 3 "Confidentiality"

13. Essential metadata
At the bottom of the page, you can choose whether to make it public ("free", default choice) or make it visible only when logged in as administrators in the "data management" page

14. Metadata Editor
After all entities have been filled with the right metadata information, click on the “save” button at the top right of the page, in order to get to the next phase of the uploading

15. Metadata Editor
The green box at the top right indicates that the resource has been created and the metadata have been stored correctly

16. Copy Metadata from another table
If you have already filled in the metadata of another table, and you want to use the same metadata in another, you first have to open the table you want to copy
Click on the "meta" button

17. Copy Metadata from another table
Copy the "Resource Identification Code"

18. Copy Metadata from another table
Go to "Data Management" and add a new table. Once in the metadata section ....
…. Click on the "magnifying glass" button ...

19. Copy Metadata from another table
… and paste here the identification code of the resource you have chosen
Save it

20. Copy Metadata from another table
Metadata have been copied. Please remember to change the title and any other metadata different from the copied table!

21. Copy Metadata from another table
If you have this error message…
Check if, by mistake, you left some empty space