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Vision Infrastructure Project (VIP)Enhanced Dissemination Chain

2nd SISAI meeting, 12-13 June 2012

B4 – IT for statistical production Unit B5 – Management of statistical data and metadata

Unit B6 – Dissemination

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aim to improve the vertical and horizontal integration of the European Statistical System; this ESS integration is one of the central goals of the ESS vision.

VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Vision Infrastructure Projects

As new technologies become available, there is a clear drive to maximise their use and to gear statistical methods toward them. New forms of communicating with users and producers such as web 2.0, as well as other new developments in information technology, are likely to result in profound changes in communication channels and

data handling and storage.

Commission Communication COM(2009)404 on the production method of EU statistics: a vision for the next decade

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0404:FIN:EN:PDF

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Enhanced Dissemination Chain – 2011 to 2013

VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Short term

Medium term

– Eurostat’s Dissemination Chain: improvement, simplification & better integration

– Disseminated data: quality improvements– EU policy indicators: faster production– Involvement of ESS (Member States) in the

Dissemination Chain

– Further development of Eurobase towards a more integrated data warehouse for Eurostat and the ESS

– Better integration of Eurostat & national dissemination

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Eurostat Dissemination Chain Simplified view of the data flows

Internet tools:Data Explorer,

TGM, etc.

Internet tools:Data Explorer,

TGM, etc.

Eurostat production databases

Eurostat production databases

Comext Dissemi-nation

Comext Dissemi-nation

New Query

Generator

New Query

Generator

ComextComext

EurobaseEurobase

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Actions Deliverables

Development towards a Eurostat / ESS

data warehouse

Strategy(context: enterprise architecture)

More integration of Eurostat data and metadata in NSI dissemination

Embeddable visualisation tool

SDMX-compliant web services

Simplification and integration of the

Eurostat Dissemination Chain

More functionality for producing and

disseminating Eurostat policy indicators

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Checking algorithms in Eurobase

Service Impact Manager

Possible direct connection between Data Explorer & Eurobase

New production line for indicator tables

Flexible dashboards for policy indicators

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 1: Development of Eurobase towards an Eurostat / ESS data warehouse

Task 1a: Strategy on opening Eurobase towards an ESS warehouse Overall context enterprise architecture Internal discussions, early stage

Task 1b: Ex-post data quality controls for data published in Eurobase Input into Eurobase is validated by production units But: errors are possible

Negative values, unexpected jumps, outliers, obvious inconsistencies …

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 2: Simplification and better integration of the DISS-CHAIN

Task 2a: Service Impact Manager (SIM)

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 2: Simplification and better integration of the DISS-CHAIN

Task 2b: Feasibility of the direct connection between Data Explorer and Eurobase

Short-term: as-is analysis, and proposals for improvements of the current DISS-CHAIN

Long-term: development of a new system

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 3: Improve functionality for producing and disseminating policy-oriented indicators

Task 3a: New production line for indicator tables Faster and more flexible provision of indicators

Task 3b: Flexible dashboards for policy indicators Existing dashboards: PEEIs, HICP

Specific solutions 'Reference' dashboard

One technical solution ready to be used by different indicator sets

Feasibility study on-going

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 4: Enhance Eurostat dissemination towards better integration with MS's dissemination

Task 4a: Simple visualisation tool to be embedded in NSIs' websites Widgets Development together with MS (Task Force) Examples (priority widgets)

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 4: Enhance Eurostat dissemination towards better integration with MS's dissemination

Task Force meeting 29 & 30 March with 6 NSIs agreed on 2 top priority widgets

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Action 4: Enhance Eurostat dissemination towards better integration with MS's dissemination

Task 4b: Dissemination web services Additional dissemination product Technology to exchange data directly over the

internet (machine to machine) Beta-release available

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VIP 'Enhanced Dissemination Chain'

Conclusions – expected project results

Eurostat: improvements of the DISS-CHAIN Technical

Architecture Functionalities

Data Quality Presentation

ESS: integration with MS's dissemination Widgets Dissemination web services