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Agenda for today:13:00 - State-of-the-art of Remote Access to Confidential Microdata (D4.1)13:30 - Researchers’ Needs (survey preliminary results)14:00 - Pilot and Proposal for a European Remote Access Network14:30 - Coffee break14:50 - Issues related to the European Remote Access Network1. Organisation & Workflows2. IT Infrastructure3. Legal & Contractual aspects15:10 - Working Groups (parallel sessions)15:50 - Coffee Break (Working group coordinators to prepare the conclusions of their respective group)16:00 - Presentation of results & main findings of the working groups16:30 - Overall discussion17:15 - Wrap up17:30 - Closure of the Workshop19:30 - Social Dinner - Park Side Restaurant

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Report on the state of the art ofcurrent SC in Europe

David Schiller (IAB)

Data without Boundaries (DwB) - WP4 workshop before NTTS

Brussels, 4. March 2013

Introduction DwB and WP4Data without Boundaries (DwB)• FP7 funded, 28 partners, runtime May 2011 to April 2015.WP4 – Improving Access to OS Microdata• Survey about Remote Access (RA) in Europe.• Concept for a European Remote Access Network.• Pilot for a limited network.Partners of WP4:IAB (Germany), Destatis (Germany), CASD (France), SDS (UK), CBS (Netherlands), CNRS (France), NSD (Norway), ONS (UK).

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Introduction RA, survey and D4.1Remote Access (RA) understood as:

“any kind of access solution that uses a secured connection to the servers of the respective data provider, whereby the user can see the real, highly-detailed and confidential microdata”. It is not about “job submission”.Survey about eight RA solutions with focus on IT was carried out. Focus on NSIs and CESSDA archives.-> DSt (Denmark), ONS (UK), MONA (Sweden), SORS (Slovenia), CBS (Netherlands), SDS (UK), CASD (France), IAB (Germany)Resulting “Report on the state of the art of current SC in Europe”

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Findings of the surveySome of the findings of the survey should be highlighted organized in three groups:

1. Organisation & Workflows2. IT Infrastructure3. Legal & Contractual aspects

Organisation and workflows• First Remote Access solution

Denmark in 2002• Management of day-to-day work

In general RDC staff and IT department. Sometimes supported by external contractors

• Hardware/Software installationNormally done by the researcher. Exception: IAB and CBS

• Output checkingDone by RDC staff and/or supporting department.

IT Infrastructure• Log-on

Password, IP range, biometrics, token etc. (at least two)• “Access devices”

Thin client/SD-Box, normal PC, hardware for fingerprint • Supporting software

Mainly Citrix but also MS and special solutions• Secured connections

Encrypted VPN tunnels through the internet (except ONS)• Data storage

Text files, SQL database, statistical package (e.g. SAS, Stata)

Legal & Contractual aspects• Who is allowed to access data

E.g. restriction to inhabitants, granted by committee, special group (non-commercial research)

• Access from where…Anywhere, Institution or safe centre

• Output checking In Denmark and Sweden done after the output is send

• Export confidential data to an institution in another country? Four said yes, four said no.

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Summary and Conclusion• Although everybody is doing more or less the same, the

solutions differ in the details.• Different interpretations of the law and different data access

cultures influence the solutions.• High and well-recognized security standards are needed.• To improve access to confidential microdata harmonization

and connect ability is needed.• State of the art IT functionalities should be used.• The report will be updated to reflect the changing landscape

in Europe.

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Want to learn more?DwB Deliverable 4.1:Report on the state of the art of curent SC in Europe

http://www.dwbproject.org/about/public_deliveraples/d4_1_current_sc_in_europe_report_full.pdf

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Thanks for ListeningQuestions & comments

Contact: [email protected]@iab.de

Website: http://www.dwbproject.org/

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