Metadata Technology Ltd, UK.
Metadata Technology Ltd. was set up in 2005 by the people that did the technical work on the SDMX and DDI standards and the tools development. Today we are the only company that can offer a full range of SDMX tools, and the technical expertise to implement SDMX in your organisation or community, swiftly. There is no other organisation in the world that can offer the same depth of skills in exploiting SDMX to enable your organisation to better manage its data and metadata.
Metadata Technology Ltd. is a small but rapidly-growing company. Our personnel represent some of the leading practitioners in the fields of technology, standards, and data. Together, they have decades of experience working with technology implementation in statistics, and are respected participants in many of the standards initiatives important to this work.
Our Mission Statement
To deliver solutions to business communities concerned with the collection, dissemination and use of data and related metadata, based on internationally recognized data and metadata standards.
Our Focus
To work with organizations to build their business communities based on:
- internationally recognized standards for the reporting, collection, and dissemination of data and related metadata
- the Company’s products and services which make the standards easy to use and to implement
Chris Nelson has spent over 30 years in the information technology industry. He has spent the last 20 years working in the area of EDI/electronic commerce, firstly as a marketing manager for a network services company, and then as a consultant in his own company, working mainly on standards related issues concerning statistical data and metadata exchange for the European Commission and International Organisations.
Since 2003, Chris has been involved in the both the SDMX and DDI 3.0 standards development projects. Together these standards support the whole of the statistical lifecycle, not only from an exchange perspective, but also from a data sharing perspective where data and metadata can be registered, discovered, and disseminated, and from an archive perspective, where data and metadata can be packaged and described in a data archive. He has developed and given many training courses in the SDMX standard and the utility of the standard in statistical systems.
From a technical perspective he is an experienced data modeller using UML (Unified Modelling Language).
Phil Lazarou is a very experienced software engineer and designer with 20 years experience in the information technology world. Since the late 90′s, Phil has worked extensively using Java and XML for IBM UK Ltd, Sun Microsystems as well as a number of other companies.
Since joining Metadata Technology, Phil has supported and enhanced existing products as well as being heavily involved in the creation and development of the Registry Database Support Tool (Fusion Matrix).
Matt Nelson
Richard Green