1. ESSnet Linked Open Statistics Update
February 2018
Paul Morrin & Eoin MacCuirc, Central Statistics Office, Ireland

2. Overview About the ESSnet Outline of Work Packages Progress to date
Overview of elements of Linked Open Statistical Data (LOSD) from an NSI (Ireland)
Next steps

3. About ESSnet
Four NSIs Bulgaria (Project Coordinator), France, Ireland, Italy
Subcontracting work to academic experts from research communities in France and Ireland
Objectives of ESSnet
To explore NSIs publishing statistical data as LOSD on the semantic web
To allow users to engage with statistical data easily as linked open data
To prepare NSIs in the wider ESS to publish LOSD
To recommend a way forward for the ESS to adopt and exploit LOSD
Launched November 2017, initial LOSD published April and October 2018, final deliverables in April 2019

4. Outline of Work Packages
WP0 - Project Coordination, Bulgaria NSI
WP1 – LOSD Pilots, user assessments and recommendations on horizontal topics, CSO Ireland
Set up LOSD platform
LOSD pilots, publishing LOSD for four separate domains
Use cases for LOSD and user assessment of the LOSD solutions provided
Recommendations for the future of LOSD in ESS and lessons learned
WP2 - ESS Networking, Cooperation and Capacity Building, Insee France
Dissemination of outputs from the ESSnet
Set up a cooperation and collaboration platform for LOSD
Organise capacity building materials and webinars

5. Progress to date November 2017, Grant Agreement signed
December 2017, Request for Tenders issued for research and technical support partners
January 2018, Kick-off meeting
February 2018, Task 2.1 Platform for collaboration proposed Insee
February 2018, Contract offered to research and technical support contractors
February 2018, First Hackathon in CSO, Dublin, Ireland
ESSnet concludes April 2019

6. Overview of elements of ESSnet LOS Initial considerations in advance of Dublin Hackathon
Agile - initially linking one Census dataset then expanding further
Link data locally, nationally and internationally incorporating non statistical datasets e.g. spatial, local government
Each NSI hosts their own single source of RDF data
NSI links RDF datasets to the European Data Portal (EDP)
Data analyst accesses LOSD through a cloud based tool pulling from EDP
Access to LOSD Open Cube toolkit (openly licensed LOSD, open source tools, freely available, cloud based)
NSI data analysts can access and create cross domain products and services e.g. linking statistical, spatial and local government datasets for an easy to use citizen friendly view
Capacity building in ESS once proven model is created

7. IRELAND 5* LOD ESSnet WP1 PROTOTYPE
5* - Cork City Profile
CSO Apps
CSO Automatic eReleases
CSO Horizontal eReport
Clean CSO Statbank Staging
HSE
OSi
2013 GDP
2016 GDP
CCC
(Query Based API) Automatic JSON/RDF
CSO
Statbank
INSEE
Data Analyst UN
Release DATA
ISTAT
GDP
0101
1010
Machine Readable Catalogue
CKAN Lookup
NSI BG
Cloud based LOD platform
Data Intermediary Bots
European Data Portal
KEY
4* Semantic Web Node
Semantic Link
Read / Copy
European Data Portal
IRELAND 5* LOD ESSnet WP1 PROTOTYPE

9. Next steps For advancement at the Dublin Hackathon, February 2018
Agree administration procedures of ESSnet and a detailed work plan timeline
Meet subcontractors consortium and define vision and business case definitions, use case definitions, inventory of key resources
Agree the specification for and build a training and collaboration platform
Define and build the LOSD publishing pipeline, identify LOSD service architecture, recommend implementation strategy
Define and build pilot implementation of LOSD on a centralised platform
Agree pilot assessment criteria
Define documentation, dissemination and harmonisation
Agree a detailed capacity building plan
Agree online training materials/knowledge base, training services and use case reporting

10. Thank you Questions?