Luxembourg January 2012 1

CORE ESSnet(COmmon Reference Environment)

final meeting

Carlo VaccariIstat - Italy

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Outline

CORE WPs and main results

Meeting Agenda

Future?

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CORA project

Main results:

Survey on existing software → SAB repository

Architecture:

– Two dimensions

– Layered

– Platform independent

– GSBPM compliant

Prototypes

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CORE workpackages

WP1: Project management

WP2: Design of the information model

WP3: Generic interface design for interconnecting

sub-processes

WP4: Workflow solutions for process management

WP5: Generic interface and scenario for .NET

WP6: Generic interface and scenario for Java

WP7: Project dissemination and cost reporting

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Meetings

Meetings held:

Kick-off - Luxembourg 17-18 January 2011

Lisbon meeting – 28-29 March 2011

Paris meeting – 20-21 June 2011

Rome meeting - 3-4 October 2011

Final meeting in Luxembourg - 11-12 January 2012

workshop to present CORE results to Eurostat

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Workpackages dependencies

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CORE WP2

Information model (del 2.2) for the statistical process designed in accordance with these principles: Rectangular data sets: rows and columns

Strong typing: each column one value type only and so a data

set is (strongly) typed. Also rules and parameters are typed

Data set Kinds: a type of channel, constrain the data sets that

can be transferred (micro data, dimensional, classifications, ...)

Free-style arguments: like scripts

Business objects: support to XML to model business objects

outside CORE, such as the GSIM

CORA requirements met by the model

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CORE WP3

Architecture: unique environment for:

Designing

Statistical processes in terms of abstract

services

Exchanged data and metadata

Running

Designed processes by invoking wrapped tools

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CORE WP3

CORE Data: Domain descriptor: meta-model with entities and entity properties CORE data model: Rectangular data set - Data set kind - Column kind Mapping model: mapping data to Domain Descriptor

Integration API: making a tool a CORE service, translating inputs and outputs of the tool in a completely transparent and automatic way

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CORE WP4

Most important result: workflow tools evaluation

Comparison based on these different axes:

– Modeling : graphical interface, model translation

– Integration: communication technology, standards,

user management, versioning, process repository,

event driven work-flow, rules engine

– Execution: monitoring, traceability

– General : usability, manual/automatic steps, long

running transaction

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CORE WP5 and WP6

These WPs provide a working solution that permits

the automatic execution of selected GSBPM sub-

processes starting from WP3 results

WP5 provides an implementation in .NET while

WP6 provides an implementation in Java.

In the afternoon DEMO for two environments

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WP7: disseminationWeb site and many presentations: NTTS Brussels 22-24 February 2011: Istat MSIS Luxembourg 23 – 25 May 2011: Istat MeTTeg Camerino Italy 30 June – 1 July 2011: Istat SISAI Luxembourg 7 – 8 June: Istat Meeting organized by Senior Statistician of the Statistical

Service of Greece, Crete July: UoA Working group for "Technology innovation" organized by the

General Secretariat of Research&Technology, Greece, September: UoA METIS workshop Geneva 5 – 7 October 2011: CBS & SSB ITDG Luxembourg 18 – 19 October 2011: Istat ESSnet workshop Cologne, Germany 27 – 28 October: SSB HLG-BAS workshop Geneva 31 October – 1 November: Istat

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CORE WP7 - Costs Collection from

Implementation library for Generic interface (WP3) and

integration for the subprocesses in .NET (WP5) & Java (WP6)

Integration Cost Reporting

Categories to use: a) Data conversion, b) Service embedding

and c) Integration API.

Note that these three categories include time spent on design,

build and test.

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Final meeting Agenda

9.30 – 10.00 Opening (Eurostat)

10.00 – 10.30 CORE Project Introduction (Istat)

10.30 –11.15 CORE Model (CBS)

11.15 – 12.00 CORE Architecture (Istat)

12.00 –12.45 Workflow Solutions (Insee)

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 –15.30 DEMO Session (Istat and CBS)

15.30 – 16.30 Open Discussion & Conclusions

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Final remarks

Rich results in 13 months:

requirements → general model → software

Importance of work atmosphere

Good cooperation between countries

Big advancements in meetings: importance of presence →

new tools like teleconference?

Good cooperation with other groups: SAB, GSIM, HLG, MSIS

Competences, skills and tools to be preserved

Need sponsorship inside NSIs, in Eurostat and in other groups

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Future?

CORE next steps:

– environment tested in NSIs → generate requirements →

implementation (industrialization)

– Eurostat sponsorhip → industrialization → adoption

Connections outside CORE:

– HLG-BAS: more cooperation needed (sprints and ...)

– Mutual review with OCMINF on GSIM

– SDMX integration (SDMX deliverable)

– Support to SAB repository developments