April 11/12, 2024: Conference On Smart Metadata for Official Statistics (COSMOS)

The COSMOS conference is a place where the official statistics community can work together to define, share, use, and manage smart metadata. Through sharing of experiences, techniques, and tools, and through forward-looking consideration of the challenges we face as a community, we can better meet the demands of the modern data landscape.

Official statisticians, metadata experts, data managers and all those involved in the collection, production and dissemination of statistics are encouraged to participate.

COSMOS will emphasize the ways in which statistical organizations can implement smart metadata in their institute, covering areas such as:

  • Standards
  • Business use cases
  • Governance
  • Best practices definition
  • Tools and implementation systems experiences (lessons learned, difficulties encountered, key successes)

This will be the first of a series of conferences, focusing on the best way forward in the development and use of smart metadata in all its forms.

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