Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA IT Coordinator 8/2/2004 FRANCO-EUROPEAN EDIFLOW INVENTORY METIS 2004 Administrative metadata

Page 2 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 EDIFLOW project,… INSEE & EUROSTAT,.. –Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA –Eurostat : Local Coordinator –France : IT coordinator at International Relations and Cooperation Dept.

Page 3 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 WHY I’M HERE ? 1) 90 % / 99 => 99 = 1999 but in 90 % what means « % » a percentage of what ? 2) Dataflows Inventory = Administrative Metadata Inventory

Page 4 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW INVENTORY SITUATION

Page 5 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Definition : homogeneous package of data sent regularly Practice : data sent by a person to another one => strong connection with structure Answer to a question

Page 6 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOWS EUROSTAT IMF OECD ECB WB INSEE-HQ SSM  1/3

Page 7 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 1.Dataflows : Q : who send what to whom ? A : Census (Ediflow inventory) 2.Data transmission : Q : How to do it? Through which channels ? A : Insee central site (Stadium & Statel ) 3.Data Format : Q : File definition ? Which standards ? A : Standardisation (Gesmes-TS)

Page 8 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW INVENTORY DESCRIPTION

Page 9 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 QUESTION = REQUEST European side of dataflows : -- Legal basis of the request (which may be regulatory or an informal agreement) -- statistical description of the data flow - statistical theme -- working group associated. - - statistical products and data base Characteristics of the request : format, confidentiality, periodicity satisfaction of the requester (only in French inventory)

Page 10 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 NATIONAL ANSWERS 1.means of transmission, 2.physical medium and logical format. 3.volume 4.work : follow-up, specific work, work burden 5.volume 6.evolution 7.producer ‘s satisfaction

Page 11 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 PERSONS & ORGANISATIONS 1.Persons : name and telephone, fax, 2.Organisations : name, postal address and telephone, fax, , web address and links

Page 12 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : method 1.Producers knows the content (in French) but : a) what is the Eurostat name ? b) what is the legal or informal basis for that work ? 2.A flow is an answer to a request but : what is the exact request ? 3.Producer logic  receiver logic

Page 13 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW inventory : workload 1.INSEE = 1 year's work in At this time, small, but good partnership with Eurostat. 3. New directory from Eurostat now could permit efficient work 4.But I have to check dataflows one by one

Page 14 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : results Direct results : › production of French & European Cd- ROM inventory in French and English with detailed administrative metadata › published on the intranet › good partnership with Eurostat

Page 15 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : current situation Former inventory, being updated now : › INSEE  EUROSTAT In progress : › INSEE  Other international organisations Planned update next year : › SSM, etc..  EUROSTAT › SSM  IMF, OECD, ECB,..

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Page 18 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : future 1.Ediflow european on line update + local database 2.Jonction with monitoring for follow-up 3.Harmonized metadata (SDMX)

Page 19 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW INVENTORY PROBLEMS

Page 20 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : metadata questions Description about data flows : What is the optimum size ? 1999 : FR -> Eurostat 215 flows checked Now Eurostat >500 identified What is the number of time-series ?

Page 21 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW Inventory : metadata questions National differences : national answer  expected Ediflow inventory  production classification => no sources into Ediflow inventory Ediflow inventory = export classification

Page 22 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 DATAFLOW INVENTORY CONCLUSION

Page 23 EDIFLOW Inventory Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAMETIS February 2004 CONCLUSION 1)Inventory strongly linked with organisation but 2)Need for stability 3)Need for theoretical basis 4)but also for realistic approach Very useful