Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting1 CORA ESSNet final results

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Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting3 short history MSIS – 2008/2010: Task Force on Sharing Software, SAB, sessions on “Sharing Software” 2009 Statistical work programme of the Commission : CORA definition ITDG 2008: CORA announcement, countries involved: ch, dk, it, lv, nl, no, se ITDG 2009: CORA presentation and start

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting4 CORA activities four meetings: Kick-off meeting in Luxembourg (October 2009) WPs Leader Meeting in Amsterdam (January 2010) Intermediate Meeting in Rome (March 2010) Final Meeting in Luxembourg (today): to present results to Eurostat and to other NSIs

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting5 WP2 state-of-the-art Architectures and software adopted by NSIs Questionnaire designed and distributed to 42 NSIs : response rate 79% - 33 of 42 Questionnaire and attached documents analysis: which dissemination level (no privacy statement) Several tools declared “shared” … usage level? Little usage of statistical business process model Set of requirements definition

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting6 WP2 state-of-the-art (del 2.1) Questionnaire (del 2.2) Requirements for Business Architecture from NSIs: BPM, strategy and tools shared/sharable (del. 2.3) Interesting review of collected documents on BPM, IT organization, architectures and IT strategy (to-be-defined dissemination, delivery to Eurostat)

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting7 WP3 technical architecture Architecture principles: Architecture model must be platform-independent The production of statistics is to be described solely in terms of services calling services (SOA) A service only uses services in the layer directly positioned under its own (layered approach) Layers can be subdivided in terms of functionality (GSBPM)

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting8 WP3 technical architecture Two dimensional approach (del. 3.1): Dim 1 : construction → layers: figures, time-series, statistic, population, unit, variable, representation Dim 2 : functional → GSBPM 9 sub-processes Software prototype added to WP3 goals: architecture proof of concept needed → 2 prototypes developed in different environments (Java and.Net)

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting9 WP3 technical architecture (del 3.2)  Common Generic Service Interface defined  Implementation guidelines: how to get them to work  Projects within Statistics Sweden and Statistics Netherlands described: some form of implementation of ideas developed within CORA.

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting10 WP3 technical architecture (del 3.3)  Instruction manual with the simple example of a monthly transport statistic  Grid template for ppt and odp

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting11 WP4: organizational architecture  Commercial and Legal Foundations for the Exchange of Software between Statistical Offices (licences, sharing and business models, TCO, help for legal questions)  Requirements Checklist for CORA tools  Recommendations for CORA tools (tools by defined categories/requirements)

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting12 WP5: Project Dissemination CORA web site and wikiweb sitewiki Software inventory managed by SAB (!!)Software inventory Training courses (ESTP) on the project products Creative Commons licence for CORA deliverables

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting13 final remarks + rich results in only 12 months: thank you! importance of work atmosphere (... fun) flexibility: adjustments needed (eg prototype) flexibility: + side-effects unexpected (eg sw inventory) cooperation with other bodies (SAB) and with Eurostat cooperation tools usage: wiki & web

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting14 final remarks - administrative load too heavy: every project implies too many administrative tasks (we don't have administrative staff) flexibility vs procedures not homogeneous commitment by partners more face-to-face meetings needed

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting15 future CORE (COmmon Reference Environment) starting: needed coordination with SDMX ESSnet and other bodies (GSBPM, HLG, METIS, other networks,...) SAB to continue CORA works: software repository management and implementation More exchanges between CORE and Eurostat (and NSIs) Cooperation with OSOR portal: to be developed

Carlo Vaccari – CORA final meeting16 thank you!