There is a growing demand for more cost-efficient production processes in Statistical
Institutes. One way to address this need is to equip Statistical Information Systems (SIS) with …

The advantages of collecting structured metadata are presented and various ways of storing
metainformation are discussed. An example of a statistical metadata model is given using …

An object oriented statistical metadata model is presented, which can be used in building
information systems providing metadata-guided, statistical data processing features. The …

An integrated, semantically rich statistical metadata model is designed to cover the major
stages of the statistical information processing (data collection and analysis including …

The huge volume of data produced by different information sources has led to the
development of tools to retrieve relevant data. Using metadata, defined as" data about data" …

Symbolic data not only serve to summarize large data sets, but also lead to more complex
data tables, thus enabling the manipulation of huge data sets (Billard and Diday, 2003). In …

It all started when philosophers began asking questions about what they were doing when
they were practicing philosophy. They applied their philosophical reflection to philosophical …