1. CAse STudy – Update 2010
Metadata Management in Official Statistics in Germany
METIS, Geneva, March 10-12, 2010

2. Content Situation in Germany Past Adoption of the GSBPM
New classification server
Progress on census metadata system
Outlook
Past
Progress
Future
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3. I. Situation in Germany
Destatis (NSI) + Regional “Länder” Offices = “Verbund “
Small Metadata Unit at Destatis
Working Group
Started in 2007
Focus: Conceptual work
Priority: Census 2011
Several isolated systems
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4. II. Adoption of GSBPM Internal working group to translate GSBPM
Currently in the process of translating level 3 (descriptions)
No changes in structure
Involving subject matters statisticians
Using Wiki-technology
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5. II. GSBPM in Use in the „Verbund“
Standardization of Production (SteP):
SteP Guidelines Issuing an inventory of standard IT-tools plus guidelines on how to use them
SteP Metadata collecting and reusing metadata along the process chain aim: “metadata portal” to look up metadata
Quality working group
Guidelines for the documentation of processes
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6. III. Classification Server
Cooperation with Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (IT-side)
Advice from Statistics Norway
Reference database for classifications
Standard IT-tool for semi-automatic coding
Sub-process 5.2 “classify and code”
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7. III. Classification Server
Neuchâtel Terminology, Part I
CLASET-XML as import format
Multilingual, allows n-language versions of one classification version
Standard thesaurus as well as classification-specific thesauri
Java + MySQL database
Web-accessibility (conforms to German BITV-Standard)
International standardization
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10. IV. Census Metadata System

11. IV. Census Metadata System
Documents: Improving Census 2011 Document Management
Variables: business specifications for variable server finished; based on Neuchâtel Part II/ISO11179
Data descriptions = in planning stage
Questionnaires = not this time…
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12. V. Outlook Classification server will become operational
GSBPM as cornerstone of strategy
Census: decision on implementation
Metadata: reorganization
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13. THank You for Your Attention!
Edgar Jänsch
Federal Statistical Office, Germany