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Fusion Metadata Registry (FMR) Knowledge Base

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Using Fusion Metadata Registry

Quick Start Guide	Install and configure a basic FMR installation
How to Guides	Guidance on specific tasks using FMR
Configuration Reference	Configuring FMR
Structural Metadata Management	Creating and maintaining SDMX structures using the FMR web user interface

SDMX 2.1 Theory

Concepts Reference	Explanation of key concepts and terms used in SDMX
Structures Reference	Details on each of the key 'maintainable' and 'identifiable' SDMX structures
Formats Reference	Details on each of the data and structure formats available in Fusion Metadata Registry including XML, JSON and CSV
REST API Web Services Reference	Purpose, parameters, request content and response content for each of the published web services together with examples

About Fusion Metadata Registry

Fusion Metadata Registry 10 implements the SDMX 2.1 specification for a structural metadata registry.

See the Change Log for details of the latest version, bug fixes and updates.

Key Features

• SDMX structural metadata registry compliant with the SDMX 2.1 specification
• Formats: SDMX-EDI, SDMX-ML 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, SDMX-JSON
• SDMX REST structure API
• Web user interface for browsing, authoring and maintaining structures
• Validator for checking that SDMX data complies with the structural metadata
• Transformer for executing SDMX Structure Maps

Use Cases

• Repository for SDMX structural metadata
• Interactively authoring and maintaining SDMX structures using the web user interface
• SDMX structural metadata REST API service
• Data validation - validate that data complies with SDMX structures
• Data transformation - transform data into different structures and coding schemes using SDMX Structure Mapping
• Data conversion - convert data between SDMX versions and formats
• Data collection - use the metadata to generate Excel data reporting templates which data providers need only to complete and return