1. Eurostat activities update
Linked Open Data
Eurostat activities update
Eurostat
January

2. Eurostat on going LOD related activities
ESS LOD Reference Architecture – first draft to be discussed with ESS EAB
Eurostat internal LOD pilots (capacity building)
ISA2 project proposal on Improving Discoverability

3. ESS LOD Reference Architecture
Capability definitions
Relevant standards
Building blocks
High level Application Architecture
LOD principles
Use cases

4. LOD RA - Contents Capability definitions
High level Application Architecture
Relevant standards
LOB Building blocks
LOD principles
Uses case

5. Eurostat LOD Pilot – Agile approach POC LOD in Eurostat
PoCs
Focus
LOD architecture
PoC 1 – Linking official statistics to improve data dissemination
SPARQL endpoint and utility services (query, analytics)
Linking to data in the Web of data and other institutions (EC, NSIs)
URI strategy
Reuse of EC infrastructure
Technical architecture
Conversion
Standards
PoC 2 – Publishing metadata as linked open metadata
Publishing nomenclatures (such as NUTS) as linked open data
Based on SKOS ontology
Metadata integration to enhance a data integration
Semantic data and metadata queries across physical stores
LOD metadata

6. Eurostat LOD Pilot – First milestones
Milestone 1 – Feb 2017
Description of the source data model selected for experimentation (SDMX data and metadata)
First version of a target (ontology) data model
Mapping between source data models and target data models on selected use cases
Specification of URI naming strategy to be adopted for identifying resources
Initial version of the prototype environment (deployment of a sample technological stack)
Milestone 2 – May 2017
Specification of the approach for data storage (ontology implementation) including documentation of technical (non-functional) aspects (e.g. performance)
Initial prototype on sample datasets and selected use cases
Revision of target data model
Querying samples
Document linkage possibilities between Eurostat data and other Linked Open Data sources

7. ISA2 projet proposal : Improving statistical data and metadata discovery and analysis – to be validated by ISA2 commitee
IT Board Meeting ISA Work Programme
Source
Commission
Action owner
ESTAT (DIGIT, OP) and NSIs
Budget
2017: kEUR
Overall: kEUR
Objectives & scope
Improve discoverability and use of official statistics data through leveraging the rich European Statistical System (ESS) statistical metadata assets (concepts, codes, nomenclatures …) using semantic technologies
Provide policy analysts with enhanced and intuitive officials statistics analytics capabilities
Develop key reusable building blocks for querying and integrating cross domains and cross borders statistical data and metadata
Major outputs
Output desc.
ESS statistical metadata platform
Target date
December 2018
Output desc.
Common ontology for official statistics
Target date
Dec 2019
Output desc.
Services for statistical metadata management and discovery (I and 2)
Target date
Dec 2019
Output desc.
Reusable data analytics platform and data discovery services
Target date
Dec 2020

8. Resources Reusable BB Capabilities
Semantic queries
RAMON - CODED
Reference ontologies for statistics
SEMIC
Stat Dcat
Ontol. Voc.
Open metadata plaform and services
Data
analytics
Open source libraries
Security and confidentiality
Metadata management
Open data portal
Data analytics service
Data integration interoperability