Title: 2000 SDS Objectives
1National Accounts World Wide Exchange
Technical Overview
Russell Penlington Lars Thygesen OECD STD/SIMS
2Rationale
- The idea
- web based mechanism
- report internationally agreed set of data
- allow any authorised user to access data
- international organisations agree
- Benefits to country's NSO
- One format and one operation for reporting
national accounts data - Automated generation of data from national source
databases - Built-in validation
- Benefits to international organisations
- Timely reporting
- Complete reporting
- No code misinterpretations
3Architecture
Data Flow
OECD Web Server
Web Application
XML Data Files
SDMX Based XML Schemas
XML Files Validated By Schema
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtCANADAlt/Valuegt lt/Datagt
Navigation
Structural XML
Excel VBA Macros provided by OECD
Upload to SNA Database or Output to Other Format
Defines Dimensions and Data Structure
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtFRANCElt/Valuegt lt/Datagt
Copied XML Files
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtAUSTRALIAlt/Valuegt
lt/Datagt
XML Files Copied to Server
Potential to reduce the number of steps for
validating and loading of NSO data into OECD
systems
Content
4Next steps
5Tour Europe
The End