1. SODI Demonstration of the results of the SODI Pilots

2. The Basics
Statistical Offices of DE, FR, NL, SE, UK as partners, ECB and OECD as observers
Mandated and supervised by the SPC, FROCH, and the ITDG (IT-Directors’ Group)
Two main deliverables:
Issue Report
Proof of Concept
Only two physical meetings (rest of the communication done by electronic means)

3. Deliverable 1: Issues Report
Delivered to the FROCH meeting of June,
Mentioning:
technical issues;
standardisation issues
statistical issues;
organisational issues;
political issues;
legal issues.
Follow-up on different levels.

4. The Value of Data Sharing
NSI
Collection
Production
Dissemination
International Organisations
shared data
Eurostat
Collection
Production
Dissemination

5. Eurostat’s single entry point Eurostat’s reference data base
The SODI Workflow
Eurostat’s single entry point
eDAMIS
Eurostat
Push
production
Verification /
process
Conversion to
SDMX-ML
Eurostat’s reference data base
Internet
Connection
to NSIs
Received
Pull
data in
EuroBase /
Web
SDMX-ML
European PEEI
Internet news service
RSS-
service
Extract
Feed
(and merge)
SDMX-ML
Eurostat
"Pull"
Loader
EuroBase /
Requestor
National Data
Robot
XSL for
SDMX-ML
Key
Dissemination
families

6. Result: work on SODI will go on!
The SPC has endorsed the X-DIS project (of which SODI is the main action)
IDABC has accepted to fund the X.DIS project with a total of 3,750,000 € (thereof 1,175,000 € for SODI) in the budget years 2005 to 2008
The first contract on SODI has been signed in December, 2005
DK, IT, NO, and SI have joined the task force.