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MSIS 2014 – Dublin

Panel on CSPA

Monica Scannapieco – Carlo Vaccari(Istat – Italy)

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COmmon Reference Architecture ESSnet 2009-2010: First childish steps on how NSOs can share and reuse statistical services

CORA

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COmmon Reference Environment ESSnet 2011-2012: A working prototype of a platform for software sharing

CORE

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2013: Istat engineered the CORE platform to start using it in production sectors

From prototyped to engineered CORE platform

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Common Statistical Production Architecture – CSPA 2013: Can we build “similar” platform by reusing statistical services in a Lego style?

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Classification Service

Sampling Design Service

Error Correction

Service

Common Statistical Production Architecture – CSPA 2014: A set of CSPA services to be built

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How to build CSPA services: input and output to be carefully designed

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How to build CSPA services: service behaviour, i.e. what is inside, needs to be defined

9 of 20How CSPA services fit within existing investments?

10 of 20Vision 2020: Off-the-shelf CSPA services?

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Use GSIM for definition of Input/Output services in CSPA: one of the first practical uses of GSIM → need more experience … Who is the expert?

12 of 20Inter-NSI benefits: saving re-use

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Intra-NSI benefits: standards! (EU-driven)

Service Catalogue as a Knowledge Base for CSPA containing not only services but also concepts and building blocks

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How to translate GSIM concepts into ontology?

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Is GSIM an ontology for statisticians?

17 of 20Two challenges / provocations on GSIM/CSPA: are we able to answer ?

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CSPA Service Vs Web Service: why it's not enough just to use web service technology? What does CSPA offer in addition to that?

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Why not use directly Semantic Web (RDF-based technology) to implement GSIM?

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We can reach the sky, if we work

together!