1. Slide 1 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 SDMX Open Data Interchange (SODI) Towards Implementation of SDMX 9-11 January 2007

2. Slide 2 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Eurostat and the European Statistical System Network of national institutions and agencies Co-ordinated by Eurostat –European Commission Directorate General –European Union Statistical Authority Tasked with providing a high quality statistical information service 1000 data providers to Eurostat More than 100 committees, working groups and expert groups

3. Slide 3 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Harmonisation & methodology coordination EU Regulations and Agreements Code lists, nomenclatures Reporting tools, services and standards –National raw data –Aggregated European data Latest technologies –Internet, Web services, XML –SDMX

4. Slide 4 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 SODI objectives Implement a data sharing approach for the Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI) –a set of 19 key short term indicators aimed at improving timeliness of European economics statistics SDMX is not only an informatics project......SODI is Eurostat’s vehicle for driving forward the whole range of technical, organisational, statistical, legal, and political developments involved in implementing SDMX in the European Union

5. Slide 5 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Data sharing in SODI NSI CollectionProduction Dissemination Collection Dissemination Production shared data Eurostat

6. Slide 6 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 The SODI Workflow Received data in SDMX-ML Eurostat "Pull" Requestor Reference Data Base / Shared Data Internet Connection to NSIs Extract (and merge) SDMX-ML XSL for SDMX-ML RSS- Feed Web service Dissemination

7. Slide 7 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 The SODI Workflow Received data in SDMX-ML Eurostat "Pull" Requestor Reference Data Base / Shared Data Internet Connection to NSIs Extract (and merge) SDMX-ML XSL for SDMX-ML RSS- Feed Web service Dissemination http://sodi.istat.it

8. Slide 8 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 The SODI Workflow Received data in SDMX-ML Eurostat "Pull" Requestor Reference Data Base / Shared Data Internet Connection to NSIs Extract (and merge) SDMX-ML XSL for SDMX-ML RSS- Feed Web service Dissemination IND-PROD monthly 1 http://sodi.istat.it/feeds/sodi_rss2_feed2.xml urn:uuid:11 IND-PROD monthly 1 Tue, 07 Sep 2006 12:16:00 GMT

9. Slide 9 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 The SODI Workflow Received data in SDMX-ML Eurostat "Pull" Requestor Reference Data Base / Shared Data Internet Connection to NSIs Extract (and merge) SDMX-ML XSL for SDMX-ML RSS- Feed Web service Dissemination … ISTAT STSIND_ORD_M M … 1990-01 2006-01 …

10. Slide 10 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 The SODI Workflow Received data in SDMX-ML Eurostat "Pull" Requestor Reference Data Base / Shared Data Internet Connection to NSIs Extract (and merge) SDMX-ML XSL for SDMX-ML RSS- Feed Web service Dissemination

11. Slide 11 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Reference Metadata for SODI To enable end users and metadata producers to access, analyse and reuse statistical metadata originated from multiple sources Standardise the set of concepts for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistical metadata SDMX protocols for ensuring the interoperability of messages, independently on the respective IT platforms. Tasks: 1.Architecture analysis; design, development and testing of a MSD (Metadata Structure Definitions) tool. 2.Analysis of metadata transfer from national and international sources; toolkit for conversion and transfer of reference metadata. 3.Loading metadata into Eurostat's database and formulating queries for extracting the information. 4.Module for dispatching SDMX-compliant metadata to Eurostat’s website.

12. Slide 12 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 SODI Reference Metadata: System Architecture

13. Slide 13 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 SDMX implementation in the European Statistical System Implementation strategy including short, medium and long term actions Aimed at making SDMX a workable tool for statisticians To be developed along the technical and content lines of work Mostly financed by IDABC, the European Commission program on interoperability

14. Slide 14 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Lines of work Main tools –SDMX registry –SDMX converter Content oriented work –DSD development: agriculture, demography, education, waste, … –transition from GESMES to SDMX-ML –SDMX reference metadata –harmonisation of code lists

15. Slide 15 Eurostat Directorate B – Statistical methods and tools; dissemination Towards implementation of SDMX – 9/11 January 2007 Conclusions Strong commitment of Eurostat to SDMX implementation SODI as driving project Continuity with the past Feedback to SDMX standard development