Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA IT Coordinator 8/2/2004 FRANCO-EUROPEAN EDIFLOW INVENTORY METIS 2004 Administrative metadata.

Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAIT Coordinator

8/2/2004

FRANCO-EUROPEAN EDIFLOW INVENTORYMETIS 2004

Administrative metadata

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EDIFLOW InventoryBertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA METIS February 2004

EDIFLOW project,…

INSEE & EUROSTAT ,..

–Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA

–Eurostat : Local Coordinator

–France : IT coordinator at International Relations and Cooperation Dept.

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WHY I’M HERE ?

1) 90 % / 99 => 99 = 1999

but in 90 % what means « % »

a percentage of what ?

2) Dataflows Inventory = Administrative Metadata Inventory

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DATAFLOW INVENTORY

SITUATION

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DATAFLOW

Definition :

homogeneous package of data sent regularly

Practice : data sent by a person to another one => strong connection with structure

Answer to a question

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DATAFLOWS

EUROSTAT

IMF OECD

ECB WB

INSEE-HQ

SSM SSM SSM

1/3

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1. Dataflows : Q : who send what to whom ?A : Census (Ediflow inventory)

2. Data transmission :Q : How to do it? Through which channels ? A : Insee central site (Stadium & Statel )

3. Data Format : Q : File definition ? Which standards ? A : Standardisation (Gesmes-TS)

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DATAFLOW INVENTORY

DESCRIPTION

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QUESTION = REQUEST

European side of dataflows : - - Legal basis of the request (which may be

regulatory or an informal agreement)- - statistical description of the data flow

- statistical theme - - working group associated.- - statistical products and data baseCharacteristics of the request : format,

confidentiality, periodicitysatisfaction of the requester (only in French

inventory)

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NATIONAL ANSWERS

1. means of transmission,

2. physical medium and logical format.

3. volume

4. work : follow-up , specific work , work burden

5. volume

6. evolution

7. producer ‘s satisfaction

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PERSONS & ORGANISATIONS

1. Persons : name and telephone, fax, e-mail

2. Organisations : name, postal address and telephone, fax, e-mail, web address and links

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DATAFLOW Inventory : method

1. Producers knows the content (in French) but :a) what is the Eurostat name ?b) what is the legal or informal basis for that work ?

2. A flow is an answer to a request but : what is the exact request ?

3. Producer logic receiver logic

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DATAFLOW inventory : workload

1. INSEE = 1 year's work in 1998

2. At this time, small, but good partnership with Eurostat.

3. New directory from Eurostat now could permit efficient work

4. But I have to check dataflows one by one

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DATAFLOW Inventory :results

Direct results :

› production of French & European Cd-ROM inventory in French and English with detailed administrative metadata

› published on the intranet

› good partnership with Eurostat

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DATAFLOW Inventory : current situation

Former inventory, being updated now :› INSEE EUROSTAT

In progress :› INSEE Other international organisations

Planned update next year :› SSM, etc.. EUROSTAT › SSM IMF, OECD, ECB,..

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DATAFLOW Inventory :future

1. Ediflow european on line update + local database

2. Jonction with monitoring for follow-up

3. Harmonized metadata (SDMX)

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DATAFLOW INVENTORY

PROBLEMS

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DATAFLOW Inventory : metadata questions

Description about data flows :

What is the optimum size ?

1999 : FR -> Eurostat 215 flows checked

Now Eurostat >500 identified

What is the number of time-series ?

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DATAFLOW Inventory : metadata questions

National differences : national answer expected

Ediflow inventory production classification

=> no sources into Ediflow inventory

Ediflow inventory = export classification

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DATAFLOW INVENTORY

CONCLUSION

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CONCLUSION

1) Inventory strongly linked with organisation but

2) Need for stability3) Need for theoretical basis4) but also for realistic

approachVery useful

Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIA IT Coordinator 8/2/2004 FRANCO-EUROPEAN EDIFLOW INVENTORY METIS 2004 Administrative metadata.

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