Alessio CardacinoISTAT

alcardac@istat.it

SDMX-RI User Group – Luxembourg 24-25 september 2013

How to implement an SDMX architecture for dissemination and reporting

The Istat approach on SDMX

SDMX Istat

Strategy

collaborative sharing of knowledge

and software

beyond the data

exchange

getting experience from ESS

pilot exercises

SODIDemographyEGRCensus Hub

ESSnetsSDMX-RI

SDMXfor standardization

and industrialization(Stat2015)

SDMX-RI

The SDMX-RI in Istat

Using Adapting

Reusing

Dissemination:• ISTAT’s SEP-------------------Reporting• Census Hub• OECD STES• ICT VIP• ESA2010 (NA)…….

• Excel plugin• Windows client• RSS feeder• Structural metadata gui• Smartphone and tablets• RDF,DSPL adapters

• WS Enhancement• Tight coupling integration with .STAT

The overall architecture

• Total estimated cost: 464.983,87 €

• Duration: 24 months (Dec 2012 – Dec 2014)

• 24 deliverables split among 4 work packages:

WP1 – Coordination

WP2 – Enhancement of the SDMX-RI, and its integration into the Istat information system

WP3 – Enhancement of the Istat Metadata Management System

WP4 – Contribution to the development of SDMX standard and implementation of capacity building actions

• 2 Directorates, 3 Services and 7 Units involved (19 internal people involved for a total of 778 man/days)

• > 1000 man/days subcontracting

Financing the implementation: Eurostat – Istat grant

Streamlining the workflow

Data Dissemination

Data Reporting

I.STAT

DSDs

Metadata&

mappingrepository

DSW

MappingAssistant

SDMXSEP

OECD

EUROSTAT

DSDs

Structural metadata Web GUI

Excel plug-in

Excel plug-in

Excel plug-in

State of the art: already available

• Excel plugin ver 1.0

• Windows client ver 1.0

• SDMX Structural Metadata web GUI ver 1.0

• Software for the tight coupling integration between SDMX-RI (intermediate version) and .Stat:

• Mapping Assistant ver 3.0.1• Web Service ver 2.4.3

State of the art: in progress

• RSS feeder (for SDMX-RI and .Stat) ver. 2.0

• Enhanced version of the SDMX-RI web service (based on the intermediate version of the SDMX-RI)

• Tight coupling integration between SDMX-RI (ultimate version, based on the sdmx Common APIs) and .STAT

• Excel Plugin ver 2.0

State of the art: in progress

• Tools for the generation of open data formats as RDF and Google DSPL

• App client for tablets and smartphones

Thank you for the attention