1. 2nd SISAI meeting Luxembourg, 12-13 June 2012
Session: New data exchange architecture in the ESS
SDMX-RI applied in the Single Exit Point project in ISTAT
Francesco Rizzo
ISTAT – Italian National Statistical Institute

2. Summary SDMX Istat milestones
The five dimensions of the SDMX Istat strategy
Istat involvement in SDMX initiatives
Istat SDMX Architecture and the SDMX-RI
SDMX Single Exit Point – some figures
SDMX-RI: how to move forward (Istat proposals)

3. SDMX Istat milestones
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Single Exit Point
SODI project
SDMX Istat
Framework
Demographic
rapid
questionnaire
Stat2015
Census Hub project
SODI (SDMX Open Data Interchange): to disseminate from the Eurostat website short-term statistics (monthly and quarterly frequency) as soon as they were available in the NSIs websites
SDMX Istat Framework: a dissemination database and a set of software modules for building a SDMX architecture
Single Exit Point: a SDMX infrastructure to disseminate data and metadata in machine-to-machine modality
Stat2015:multi-years program for modernizing ISTAT information system. SDMX is one of the statistical standard taken in consideration
ESSnet SDMX
Phase I
ESSnet SDMX
Phase II 3 3

4. The five dimensions of the SDMX Istat strategy
To provide data to the
international and/or
national organization
to disseminate data in
machine-to-machine
modality
Census hub
OECD STS
Bank of Italy
Italian Regions
Pilot exercise with:
Bank of Italy
JP Morgan
Italian Regions
SDMX
Metadata Management
System
”data user” point
of view
Excel plug-in
Windows app.
SDMX Registry
Web GUI
Data collection
SDMX data loader 4 4

5. Istat involvement in SDMX initiatives
OECD
SIS-CC
Statistical
Network
ISTAT
SDMX TWG
SDMX-RI
User group
OECD SIS-CC (statistical Information Systems – Collaboration Community)
Statistical Network: collaboration among NSIs (SE, NO, NZ, GB, CA, AU,IT) for harmonizing statistical methods, systems and capabilities across statistical agencies
SDMX-RI (SDMX Reference Infrastructure) is an IT infrastructure developed by Eurostat. Istat has participated from the very first beginning to the design. Recently Istat has been improving the Infrastructure, developing new functionalities into the exiting modules and new modules from screatch. 5 5

6. Istat SDMX Architecture and the SDMX-RI
DSW
Mapping
Assistant
Mapping
Store
SDMX-ML 6 6

7. SDMX Single Exit Point – some figures
Structural metadata already available:
64 codelists
10 conceptschemes
50 DSDs
81 dataflows
Statistical domains that will be covered by the end of 2012:
National accounts
Industry and constructions
Services
Business size and households
Social security and welfare
Public administrations and private institutions
External trade and internationalization
Labour
Prices

8. SDMX-RI: how to move forward (Istat proposals)
SDMX-RI more integrated with the business process:
Mapping Store as a complete SDMX repository
include other artifacts
synchronization with Eurostat (and/or Global) Registry
accessible by the DSW
Enhance the basic functionalities
authentication/authorization mechanism
automate some mapping steps when the dissemination database schema doesn’t change
the basic database schemes (TYPE-A, B, C, D)
improve the “mapping GUI” (beyond 3 db tables is not usable)
improve performance
Agree future strategies with Eurostat and facilitate a User (collaboration) community:
reduce the risk of “forks”
common work-plane
sharing of knowledge and expertise
sharing of development 8