1. 1 SDMX Reference Infrastructure SDMX Global Conference 2 – 4 May 2011, Washington DC Adam Wroński, Marco Pellegrino, Bengt-Åke Lindblad, Nadezhda Vlahova Eurostat, “Quality, Methodology and Information Systems” Directorate

2. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 2 Keywords Based on the analysis of the current level of SDMX implementations within organisations and needs expressed by our constituency The re-use of software –reducing costs –increasing productivity

3. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 3 Rationale Allows exposure of data from existing databases using SDMX standards Provides statistical organisations re-usable building blocks: –.NET and Java implementations –Well defined API –Open Source package under the EUPL licence –Minimize installation effort that enable production of SDMX data from existing reference / dissemination databases Support Census Hub and similar Eurostat projects Conform to SDMX Web Service guidelines Stimulate a “SDMX community of developer”

4. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 4 Modules SDMX Query Parser Data Retriever Structure Retriever SDMX Data Generator Web Service Provider sdmx_model Web Client Mapping Assistant User Interfaces

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9. 9 Mapping Assistant (MA) Mapping of local data fields to data fields in SDMX format Transcoding of codes Translates local dissemination systems to the “SDMX-World” Support for different database schemes Desktop application

10. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 10 Mapping sequence

11. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 11 Where we are Countries that installed the SDMX-RI : Belgium, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden Expressing interest –Assistance 2011: Bulgaria –Assistance 2012: Albania, Iceland, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey –Without assistance: Cyprus, Russia

12. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 12 Where we are (ctd.) Software maintenance and governance –Up to now Eurostat is managing both the evolutive and adaptive maintenance –How will versioning be handled when other organisations improve the software –Is “open source” community model applicable to the “statistical community” –Experiences could come from organisations participating in SDMX ESSnet projects

13. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 13 Development Roadmap (2011) Impact analysis for SDMX 2.1 compatibility Analysis of the SDMX RESTful API Feasibility study on how to integrate components of other SDMX framework

14. SDMX Global Conference, 2-4 May 2011, Washington DC 14 Bengt-Åke Lindblad Bengt-Ake.Lindblad@ec.europa.eu Eurostat Unit B5 – Statistical Information Technologies Contact