1 1 MSIS Future Work MSIS April 2010 Daejeon

2 Main topics at MSIS 2010 Topic (i): Developing common high-level architectures (e.g. business, information and IT architectures) Topic (ii): Software sharing and shared maintenance Topic (iii): Issues for Asian statistical organizations and ways to increase international cooperation Topic (iv): Innovation and related issues including census systems

3 Procedures for inviting papers At MSIS 2009 we agreed to send out an invitation for abstracts. Information Notice no. 1 contained a list of possible topics and such an invitation. Not many responded to the general invitation Usually the Steering Committee end up discussing possible main topics, and exhcange information about potential contributors, which then will be contacted by the session organisers MSIS 2010 should give some advice on list of main topics for MSIS 2011 Should we ask for abstracts for next year as we did last year?

4 Possible main topics for 2011 Topic (i): Architectures, models and standards Topic (ii): From local to corporate perspective Topic (iii): Innovation and related issues Topic (iv): International cooperation/collaboration

5 Possible main topics for 2011 Topic (i): Architectures, models and standards Definitions and scope of architecture and high-level models (BPM, information models etc) Managing reference metadata (DSD’s etc) Metadata driven systems, challenges and opportiunities DDI and SDMX, coherence, usage etc Metadata vocabulary, statistical ontology, semantic web and linked data

6 Possible main topics for 2011 Topic (ii): From local to corporate perspective Technology –SOA Management –Business continuity –Data and metadata management Skills, capability

7 Possible main topics for 2011 Topic (iii): Innovation and related issues Demonstration of bleeding edge software solutions Best practise examples Geodata Cloud computing, SAAS

8 Possible main topics for 2011 Topic (iv): International cooperation/collaboration Reference models for international cooperation/developments –Examples Benchmarking –Framework –Examples Report and work program for the SAB