Metadata Technology

We don't invent standards and we don't use proprietary standards to achieve this. We are well versed in the major standards that cover this area: SDMX, DDI, ebxml, in particular the ebXML registry, UBL, XBRL. We do not see these different standards as competing technologies: they all have a distinct role to play in specific areas of the data and metadata lifecycle, and the key to an integrated approach is to be able to link between them to access the data and metadata at all relevant points in this lifecycle.

We believe in registry based solutions to deliver the visions of shareable and accessible data and metadata - these registries contain the vital metadata to find the data and metadata either on the web in a processible form, or in databases accessible on the web, as well as the structural metadata that defines the content of the data or metadata source in a way that enables it to be processed automatically: this could be loaded into a database, transformed for web publication, merged or compared with other datasets for analysis. This is possible by the support of and use of open standards and openly available tools that support the standards.

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