This document discusses various open source and commercial tools for working with SDMX data, including OpenSDMX, SdmxSource, Fusion Weaver, Fusion Registry, Eurostat Reference Implementation, SDMX Converter, sdmxtools, and several SDMX vendor companies. It provides brief descriptions and links for each tool and highlights their capabilities such as validation, transformation between formats, and implementation of SDMX standards.

1. SDMX 8 Tools and Vendors
UN/FAO - Erik van Ingen
Abuja, Nigeria, 13-14 May 2015

2. OpenSDMX
• First real SDMX Open source software project
http://sourceforge.net/p/opensdmx/home/Home/
• Created by UN/FAO and the EU/D4Science and
EU/iMarine project
• Surpassed by SdmxSource for core modules
• Only SDMX 2.0
• Positioned as an extension of SdmxSource
• Has valuable Olap4J adapter (used in data.fao.org/sdmx)
• RSDMX in OpenSDMX is actively developed
(see presentation rsdmx - Tools for reading SDMX data and metadata in R)

3. SdmxSource
http://www.sdmxsource.org/

4. Fusion Weaver
http://blog.metadatatechnology.com/tag/fusion-weaver/
validation of SDMX files
enables files to be transformed into other formats -
including CSV
You can link a data file against a structure file to ensure
that your data conforms to the specified structure and
has the required attributes and observations.

5. Fusion Registry
http://www.metadatatechnology.com/downloads.php
Based on SdmxSource

6. Fusion Weaver

7. Eurostat Reference Implementation
(RI)
Step out to the presentation:
/presentation from Eurostat on RI
/D.1 SDMX and SDMX-RI Current and future implementation in the ESS

8. SDMX Converter

9. SDMX Converter
converts between
• SDMX version 2.0 standard (generic, compact,
utility and cross-sectional)
• CSV
• DSPL

10. Fusion Registry

11. sdmxtools
http://www.sdmxtools.org/

12. SDMX Vendors
Metadatatechnology (many clients, maintains SdmxSource)
http://www.metadatatechnology.com/downloads.php
Agilis (does a lot for Eurostat)
https://www.agilis-sa.gr/main/index.php
Prognoz (does a lot for the African Development Bank & IMF)
http://www.prognoz.com/

13. thank you