1. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 1 eDAMIS The standard solution for transmitting your statistical data files to the Eurostat Single Entry Point

2. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 2 Position of the management Eurostat Management Directors meeting (12/2/2008): “As from 1 July 2008, eDAMIS compulsory for all regular transmission of data” European Statistical System - SPC (14/2/2008) re-affirmed its support to the Single Entry Point strategy.

3. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 3 eDAMIS is an environment which :  Implements the concept of the Single Entry Point (SEP)  Usage is simple (no installation on the user PC)  Provides adapted solutions to several needs and users profiles (NSI and other organisations)  Facilitates fully automated data transmissions  Guaranties secure transmissions  Maintains a high level of availability of services (checks every 10-30 minutes the availability of the services)  Offers value added services such as: traffic monitoring, acknowledgements, reminders … What is eDAMIS ?

4. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 4  eDAMIS (eWA) is used today by all NSI’s  In 2004, the coverage of the SEP was around 20% (remaining 80% being mainly personal emails)  In 2007, SEP coverage reaches 40%  Higher usage for NSI’s (close to 100% of coverage for some of them)  Targeting 100% of coverage for all regular transmissions from all data providers Facts and figures

5. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 5 eDAMIS and Confidentiality  eDAMIS always provides a secure (encrypted) data transmission channel in transit (on Internet)  For confidential data, eDAMIS uses a public key for providing a second level of encryption which guaranties that data is delivered encrypted in the Eurostat secure environment (and decrypted there with a private key)  In all cases, encryption is transparent for the data senders

6. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 6 eDAMIS – Naming convention Dataset Occurrence Id Dataset Id Country Code Period _ WASTE_DISPO_A2_UK_2006_0000 ROAD_A1_Q_DE_2001_0004 __ Year Examples: Domain Id Dataset structure Id Periodicity/ies _ Dataset Id WASTE_DISPO_A2ROAD_A1_Q Examples: _ allows automatic recognition by eDAMIS same name used by all parties involved in data transmission

7. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 7 @ Data NSI (National Statistical Institute) eWA (eDAMIS Web Application ) Small data provider Data eWP (eDAMIS Web Portal) @ Send data eDAMIS server Transmission Send data file Other (MIS users, datasets,...) eWF (eDAMIS Web Forms) Enter data in Web Form @ @ Data Notifies Special cases and exceptions: all Organisations having eWA installed (not only NSI) should use eWA to send their data in case of problem in eWA, eWP could be used in NSI as fail over solution to send data to Eurostat NSI should use Web Forms in eWP unless they can send directly a SDMX-ML file via eWA Eurostat eDAMIS approaches to provide data to Eurostat

8. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 8 How to become eDAMIS User ?  All users: use their CIRCA user-id and password  Eurostat users are all eDAMIS users (by default: Guest)  Users in NSI: should contact their Local Coordinator to use eDAMIS Web Application (see last slide)  Users from “small data providers” should self register in eDAMIS:  Go to eDAMIS Web Portal at: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/edamis  Link: “Self registration (I have no CIRCA User-ID)”

9. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 9 Eurostat eDAMIS n (Basic validation) n Monitoring n Archive n Dispatching n Notification Production Unit Secure transmission eDAMIS Web Application (eWA) transmissions (Local installation in NSI) Data Notification NSI Data Secure Transmission Acknowledgement

10. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 10 eDAMIS Web Application – send screen

11. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 11 Office Data Travel Data Eurostat eDAMIS n Basic validation n Monitoring n Archive n Dispatching n Notification Production Unit Web Portal Data Acknowledgement Notification Any Place Data eDAMIS Web Portal (eWP) transmissions (fail over solution for NSI users)

12. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 12 Direct Web upload with eWP

13. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 13 eDAMIS Web Forms

14. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 14 Monitoring report - example Dataset occurrences of “Road A1” received between February and April 2005 (extract)

15. Eurostat Unit B3 – Statistical Information Technologies Data transmission tools and services 15/05/2008 15  In NSI (eDAMIS Web Application): contact your Local Coordinator in your country =>List on eDAMIS Help Centre (section “contacts”)  eDAMIS Web Portal (eWP) at https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/edamis  “eDAMIS help centre” accessible on eDAMIS Web Portal+ link “eDAMIS Help Centre”  Eurostat Support at : estat-support-edamis@ec.europa.eu More information