1. DIME ITDG, Luxembourg 28 June 2016
Item 2. ESS.VIP DIGICOM
DIME ITDG, Luxembourg 28 June 2016
Christine Kormann, Eurostat B1

2. Overview DIGICOM project and state of play
ESS Visualisation workshop (WP2)
Open Data Dissemination (WP3)
First results of the inventory
Towards an ESS open data strategy

3. 1. The DIGICOM project
DIGICOM aims at modernising communication and dissemination of European statistics
Upgrading statistical products
Systematic dialogue with users
Capacity building

4. 1. DIGICOM Work Packages

5. 1. DIGICOM- state of play
DIGICOM Steering Group created (13 NSIs represented)
4 Work Package teams have started working, 18 NSIs involved in total
Inventory of practices conducted among all ESS NSIs on user analysis, Linked Open Data and statistical literacy in March-April

6. 1. DIGICOM Deliverables 2016- Q12017
Pilot social network
Piloting visualisation
Open data strategy
Visualisation workshop
Visualisation workshop
Inventory report
May
June
July
Oct
Nov
Dec
Feb
March
Requirements and specifications social network platform
Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication
Pilot experimental statistics
Requirements linked open data
Conference

7. 2. ESS Visualisation workshop
Pilot social network
Piloting visualisation
Open data strategy
Visualisation workshop
Visualisation workshop
Inventory report
May
June
July
Oct
Nov
Dec
Feb
March
Requirements and specifications social network platform
Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication
Pilot experimental statistics
Requirements linked open data
Conference

8. 2. ESS visualisation workshop (WP2)
ESS visualisation workshop, Valencia May
1st event organised under the DIGICOM project
100 participants: statisticians (nearly all the ESS NSIs), European institutions, data scientists, researchers, graphic designers and data journalists (El Mundo)

9. 2. ESS visualisation workshop

10. 2. ESS visualisation workshop
Visualisation for analysis: visualisation to discover relevant questions for the analysis, to assess the quality of data (detecting patterns in missing values) and proposing adequate dissemination
Network visualisation of the Input-Output table of the economy of the region of Aragon (Spain)
Source : Kampal

11. 2. ESS visualisation workshop
Visualisation for dissemination
Different tools for different user needs
Lecture on uncertainty visualisation
Display of line charts with uncertainty (based on confidence intervals)
Source: Mr Edwin de Jonge, CBS

12. 2. ESS visualisation workshop
Impact of gamification techniques on users
Visualisation methods are able to present complex quantitative in sometimes sophisticated images
How users do actually decode these images to recover the relevant information and improve decision question?
For NON-EXPERT users, gamification enhances the understanding of the information and improves its use for decision making

13. 2. ESS visualisation workshop
Skills: different options for NSIs (internal development, open source, commercial products…), multidisciplinary teams

14. 2. ESS visualisation workshop

15. 3. Open data dissemination (WP3)
Pilot social network
Piloting visualisation
Open data strategy
Visualisation workshop
Visualisation workshop
Inventory report
May
June
July
Oct
Nov
Dec
Feb
March
Requirements and specifications social network platform
Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication
Pilot experimental statistics
Requirements study, Linked Open Data
Conference

16. 3. From open data to Linked Open Data
5 star deployment scheme from Tim Berners-Lee
★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ make it available in a non-proprietary open format (e.g., CSV as well as of Excel)
★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context

17. 3. Differences in open data maturity between NSIs
First analysis of the inventory on open data in the ESS,
Conducted in March 2016, analysed by WP3 team
Vast majority of NSIs provides data in an open format
Less than 1/3 have participated in Linked Open Data activities.
Few actively publish in LOD (FR, IT, UK, IE, CH)
There is indication that a lack of standards is hindering the adoption of LOD
Some mention lack of tangible services built using these formats

18. European Open Data projects (OP, DG CONNECT)
3. A complex environment
International standards development
UNECE linked statistical metadata project
SDMX standard further development
W3C semantic web standards
European Open Data projects (OP, DG CONNECT)
National open data portals
NSIs open data projects
Eurostat
Open Cube project
DIGICOM
Eurostat + NSIs
Dissemination chain project
European Data Portal
Coordination
Re-use
APIs
Stat- DCAT
Coordination

19. 3. Open data-next steps
Study on requirements (to be delivered by 02/2017)
Identification of stakeholders
Assessment of implementation, use cases (open data portals, SPARQL endpoints), issues (performance, structural validation, trust, skills)
Current initiatives and projects
Collection of requirements and elements for a strategy
Study implemented by contractor, NSI cooperation (visits, feedback…)

20. 3. Open data-next steps Towards an ESS open data strategy - Questions
What are the components of the strategy?
Level of ambition (e.g. Do all NSIs aim at 4 */5 * by 2020?)
What could be an agreed use case?
In which areas is there a need for guidance (formats, standards, use of national and European open data portals, how to address skills gap)?