Bertrand MICHEL de PRÉVIAIT Coordinator
8/2/2004
FRANCO-EUROPEAN EDIFLOW INVENTORYMETIS 2004
Administrative metadata
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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
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 : 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