2nd SISAI meeting Luxembourg, 12-13 June 2012 Session: New data exchange architecture in the ESS SDMX-RI applied in the Single Exit Point project in ISTAT Francesco Rizzo ISTAT – Italian National Statistical Institute rizzo@istat.it

Summary SDMX Istat milestones The five dimensions of the SDMX Istat strategy Istat involvement in SDMX initiatives Istat SDMX Architecture and the SDMX-RI SDMX Single Exit Point – some figures SDMX-RI: how to move forward (Istat proposals)

SDMX Istat milestones 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Single Exit Point SODI project SDMX Istat Framework Demographic rapid questionnaire Stat2015 Census Hub project SODI (SDMX Open Data Interchange): to disseminate from the Eurostat website short-term statistics (monthly and quarterly frequency) as soon as they were available in the NSIs websites SDMX Istat Framework: a dissemination database and a set of software modules for building a SDMX architecture Single Exit Point: a SDMX infrastructure to disseminate data and metadata in machine-to-machine modality Stat2015:multi-years program for modernizing ISTAT information system. SDMX is one of the statistical standard taken in consideration ESSnet SDMX Phase I ESSnet SDMX Phase II 3 3

The five dimensions of the SDMX Istat strategy To provide data to the international and/or national organization to disseminate data in machine-to-machine modality Census hub OECD STS Bank of Italy Italian Regions Pilot exercise with: Bank of Italy JP Morgan Italian Regions SDMX Metadata Management System ”data user” point of view Excel plug-in Windows app. SDMX Registry Web GUI Data collection SDMX data loader 4 4

Istat involvement in SDMX initiatives OECD SIS-CC Statistical Network ISTAT SDMX TWG SDMX-RI User group OECD SIS-CC (statistical Information Systems – Collaboration Community) Statistical Network: collaboration among NSIs (SE, NO, NZ, GB, CA, AU,IT) for harmonizing statistical methods, systems and capabilities across statistical agencies SDMX-RI (SDMX Reference Infrastructure) is an IT infrastructure developed by Eurostat. Istat has participated from the very first beginning to the design. Recently Istat has been improving the Infrastructure, developing new functionalities into the exiting modules and new modules from screatch. 5 5

Istat SDMX Architecture and the SDMX-RI DSW Mapping Assistant Mapping Store SDMX-ML 6 6

SDMX Single Exit Point – some figures Structural metadata already available: 64 codelists 10 conceptschemes 50 DSDs 81 dataflows Statistical domains that will be covered by the end of 2012: National accounts Industry and constructions Services Business size and households Social security and welfare Public administrations and private institutions External trade and internationalization Labour Prices

SDMX-RI: how to move forward (Istat proposals) SDMX-RI more integrated with the business process: Mapping Store as a complete SDMX repository include other artifacts synchronization with Eurostat (and/or Global) Registry accessible by the DSW Enhance the basic functionalities authentication/authorization mechanism automate some mapping steps when the dissemination database schema doesn’t change the basic database schemes (TYPE-A, B, C, D) improve the “mapping GUI” (beyond 3 db tables is not usable) improve performance Agree future strategies with Eurostat and facilitate a User (collaboration) community: reduce the risk of “forks” common work-plane sharing of knowledge and expertise sharing of development 8