DwB project and the Regional Workshops Roxane Silberman CNRS-Réseau Quetelet and DwB coordinator 2 nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens October, 2014

Outline DwB project objective in short DwB main outputs Cooperation and Regional Workshops 2 Nd Regional Workshop, Athens 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens2

Data without Boundaries A FP7 project, started in May 2011, will end in April 2015 Increase researchers access to official microdata within the ERA, both European and national o With a a focus on transnational access to national highly detailed microdata (ScUF) including administrative data In a context where data issues are increasingly important for research, for public policies, for the society o While new data, big data open new paths but also debates re. privacy protection and open data 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens3

Cooperation at the core of the project Building cooperation between the different communities o European Statistical System o CESSDA as a European research data infrastructure An essential mean to achieve the objective o Build a more understandable and efficient landscape for the researchers and the producers o Develop exchanges resulting in better quality of data and more data used o Better share the burden in a context of increasing demand 28 partners from the different communities (8 NSIs/NSAs) o And the whole communities continuously involved workshops conferences o Regional workshops as part of this effort 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens4

From the state of play … A general trend towards more access to official microdata both at European and national level, however: A fragmented landscape: no single point of access for discovery and access, silos Lack of information o Metadata and information about access not available or insufficient, language issues Lack of harmonisation: terminology, procedures, implementation, standards, access systems Substantial obstacles o Legal frameworks and interpretations for ScUF and transnational access Resulting in o No access, unfriendly access, loss of time, duplication, no possibility to work together for researchers o Rich resources underused for data producers and society 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens5

… to the project objectives Discovery  Discuss and prepare a single point of access  Discuss standards and start improving metadata, solving language issues Access  Share a common understanding of legal obstacles, interpretation and possible solutions  Discuss harmonisation of the accreditation procedures  Propose an architecture and build a pilot for a European Remote Access Network (EuRAN) for Secure Use Files  Improve methods for anonymisation  Support immediate use of OS by researchers Dialogue: Promote the dialogue between the different communities 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens6

Main outputs from the project Different types o Operational products o Concepts o Plots, prototypes, proof of concepts o Standards` o Improved cooperation and changes in practices 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens 7

Discovery Users’ stories as a background  A long term perspective requiring active involvement of NSIs Portal prototype for harvesting metadata with different standards and guidelines & tools for stakeholders that will prepare single point of access aligned with the CESSDA catalogue`  Immediate operational products o MISSY: Eurostat metadata base o CIMES: National OS metadata base o Routines for facilitating OS data usage (Data-reading “Setup Files”,.csv data-importing R-scripts, etc.) 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens8

MISSY (Microdata Information System) Documentation tool (provided by GESIS/Germany) Adapted for the needs of DwB for documenting Eurostat microdata Database documenting EU-Integrated datasets (SILC, LFS, AES, CIS and SES) Down to the variable level + online information- integrating codebook Friendly metadata 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens9

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CIMES (Centralising and Integrating Metadata from European Statistics) Documentation tool developed by CNRS-RQ and CASD/France Metadata base currently documenting over 1900 national studies from 28 European countries DDI based Including a section on Type of files (PUF,CUF, SUF, ScUF) Criteria for access (researchers, PHD..) Links to providers and application forms 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens11

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16-17, October 20142nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens13September 2014 Developments and Challenges in European Microdata Access, Luxembourg 13 CIMES fields Series levelStudy levelDataset level Title Dataset Identification Number Subtitle Name Alternative Title Access conditions AbstractProducerOther Access Conditions KeywordsAbstractDescription of accreditation procedures Geographic CoverageKeywordsContact Time Period CoveredGeographic CoverageNotes Time MethodUniverse NotesSampling Procedure Date of Collection Time Period Covered Kind of Data Documents Sources Notes

… and further developments Soon open for public Further developments: o More studies, o Variable level o Allow access for providers/producers o A basis for the CESSDA portal development 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens14

Access Users’ stories and Use Cases as background Immediate operational outputs: National accreditation & access procedures factsheets, Legal Frameworks visualization tool Standards: Accreditation Standard Design Principles, ISO Norm for Security Requirements Technical concept & workflow for a European Remote Access Network (EuRAN) that would allow the researchers to work with data located in different RDCs/countries together with researchers located in different places + Pilot and Proof of Concept Guidelines for Output Checking, Innovative methods for SDC & Software package 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens15

16-17, October 20142nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens16 Within the current framework, immediate support to researchers access DwB has supported real research projects (35 projects selected so far in 6 calls) o With 7 RDCs from 4 countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, UK) cooperating together Training courses for the researchers on specific data sources (e.g. SILC, LFS, AES, Censuses) o 6 courses (5 th in Barcelona on censuses; 6 th in Athens on AES) September 2014 Developments and Challenges in European Microdata Access, Luxembourg 16

Dialogue and cooperation Getting a better common understanding of respective needs and requirements Discussing and setting up solutions Inside DwB and beyond, through workshops, events, visits 2 European Data Access Forum gathering all stakeholders about access issues, Next: Luxembourg, March 24-25, Users’ conferences bridging researchers and producerse about EU- LFS and EU-SILC in cooperation with GESIS and Eurostat, Mannheim, Next: March 5-6, 2015 Staff visits in RDCs promoting Remote access as a basis for a EuRA And … Regional workshops , October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens17

Regional workshops Foster cooperation between archives and Nsis at national level Discuss best forms of cooperation Crucial as a basis for setting up a European infrastructure 1 st Regional workshop, Ljubljana  Outputs (see presentation) 2 nd Regional workshop, Athens, October 16-17, , October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens18

2 nd Regional workshop, Athens Perimeter  Southern countries  Countries not involved in DWB project  Examples of cooperation developments in some other countries Some specific situations  No archives  New process or on-going discussions in several countries 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens19

Agenda State of play on access to OS data and cooperation with focus on the region Results from the 1st workshop Examples of NSIs and Archives activities regarding metadata and access to data Discussing cooperation based on examples in the region and elsewhere 16-17, October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens20

Thank you for listening and have a good work ! More information at: , October nd DwB Regional Workshop, Athens21