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ESSnet

CORA
Common Reference Architecture
Partner’s name: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat)
WP1 – Project Management
Deliverable 1.1 Preliminary Report
Preliminary Report
Partner in charge
Istat
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1. Summary 4
2. Activities and Milestones of the Period 4
3. State of Advancement of Work Packages 4
3.1. WP1: Project Management 4
3.2. WP2: Requirements and state of the art 5
3.3. WP3: Definition of the technical architecture 5
3.4. WP4: Organizational Architecture 6
3.5. WP5: Dissemination 6
4. Appendix 1 7
5. Appendix 2 11
1.
Summary
=======
The purpose of this document is to illustrate the state of advancement
of the COmmon Reference Architecture (CORA) Essnet at month 3 (M3).
First, a brief description of the main activities and milestones of
this period will be presented. Then, a detailed state of advancement
for each CORA work package (WP) will be described.
2.
Activities and Milestones of the Period
=======================================
The CORA Essnet kick-off meeting was held in Luxembourg on October 19th
and 20th 2009. Representatives of all CORA partners were present at
the meeting. After a general introduction to the project, each WP
leader presented the due outcomes of the WP of his/her responsibility,
as well as a proposal for the work organization. The detailed minutes
of the meeting are attached as Appendix 1.
A wiki for CORA was set up at the address:
https://www.wiki.istat.it/doku.php/start?idx=essnet_cra
The wiki has general sections and sections specifically dedicated to
each WP. Such sections have been organized by each WP leader in order
to support the collaborative work among WP participants.
A CORA web site has also been set up, hosted by the OSOR site, at the
address: http://www.osor.eu/projects/cora
So far the web site has been populated with general information about
the project.
The CORA Essnet WP leaders meeting was held in The Hague, on January
26th and 27th 2010. All CORA WP leaders were present at the meeting.
The meeting had the purpose of checking the advancement of the work
and of planning the intermediate meeting to be held in month 5 (M5).
The detailed minutes of the meeting are attached as Appendix 2, while
a description of the status of advancement for each work package is
presented in Section 3.
3.
State of Advancement of Work Packages
=====================================
1.
WP1: Project Management
-----------------------
During the period to which this document is referred, the work by
different partners was monitored by both email exchanges and wiki
consultation. The degree of participation and reaction of the partners
has been very good.
Both meetings held in the period, the kick-off and the WP leaders
meeting were very successful in so far as the planned objectives were
achieved.
The deliverable due in the reference period, is this preliminary
report to which each partner has contributed.
Among the activities that are ongoing for WP1, there are:
1.
Intermediate meeting organization to be held in month 5 (M5).
2.
Intermediate report to be delivered in month 5 (M5).
2.
WP2: Requirements and state of the art
--------------------------------------
The principal activity of WP2 in the reference period has been the
design of the questionnaire.
A first draft of the questionnaire was submitted for evaluation to
CORA partners on November 9th 2009, together with a cover letter
introducing the purpose and the content of the questionnaire.
On December 10th 2009, a new version of the questionnaire was sent by
SN in order to have:
a) a pilot round/field test by all organizations participating in CORA
b) a review and approval round, to be conducted in parallel, by the
technical committee.
On February 1st 2010, the questionnaire was sent out to ITDG mailing
list plus MSIS mailing list, specifically MSIS countries present at
the last meetings, Canada, Australia, Korea, New Zealand and the US.
The scheduled deadline for questionnaire answers is February 22nd
2010.
The on-going activities of WP2 include:
*
Analysis of the results as soon as they start coming in
*
Data entry application, aggregated data, draft tables, text for
Set of requirements report due month 6 (M6).
*
Translation, classification and analysis of documents in State of
the Art report due month 6 (M6).
3.
WP3: Definition of the technical architecture
---------------------------------------------
WP3 work organization has been strongly supported by the wiki.
Specifically, WP3 leader organized a section of the wiki for the
purpose of supporting the discussion on WP3 done so far (mainly from
November 2009 to January 2010). This discussion was organized
according to the different sections in which a document proposed by
CBS people at the kick-off meeting was organized. Inputs by all
partners were collected for the first four sections of the document,
and the WP3 leader has included all such inputs in a new version of
such a document containing the specification of the CORA architecture.
Moreover, a proof-of-concept software prototype has been started to be
developed by CBS people. The prototype shows how a process can be
structured as a sequence of services with related input/output.
The on-going activities on WP3 regard:
*
How to make operational CORA architecture (orchestration of
services to cope with process view; behaviour of services, how to
model services composed just by other services).
*
Collaboration between Istat and CBS for the development of “proof
of concept” software prototypes with two different technological
platforms: .net (CBS) and java-based platform (Istat).
4.
WP4: Organizational Architecture
--------------------------------
WP4 is currently working on all the four tasks in which it is
organized.
Two of the planned tasks are in progress, namely:
*
Suitable licensing models for sharing applications
*
Legal Frameworks for the shared development
The two remaining planned tasks need some input from WP2 questionnaire
results; more specifically:
*
The task “Business model for the support of shared applications”
has started but will be completed and refined according to the
questionnaire’s results.
*
The task “Guidelines and best practices for designing, programming
and testing of shared applications, including tools to be used”
has started but will also be completed and refined on the basis of
the results on shared software tools collected by the
questionnaire.
5.
WP5: Dissemination
------------------
As far as WP5, the following activities have been done in the
reference period:
*
CORA Wiki: As already introduced, the CORA wiki has been made
available to all project partners at the address
https://www.wiki.istat.it/doku.php/start?idx=essnet_cra.
*
Mailing lists: Two mailing lists have been set up, namely
cora-all, including all people working on the project from the
different participating countries, and cora-tc consisting of
people included in the CORA technical committee (see Appendix 1).
*
CORA web site on OSOR: As decided at the kick-off meeting (see
Appendix 1), the CORA web site has been set up and hosted by the
OSOR site. There is a planned activity for feeding the site with
the contribution of all partners.
*
Definition of a CORA deliverable template. A CORA deliverable
template has been defined and is available on the wiki under the
section dedicated to WP5.
Moreover, CORA has been presented at the following dissemination event
in the reference period:
*
IT Directors Group (ITDG) event, 21 and 22 October 2009,
Luxembourg.
4.
Appendix 1
==========
Kick-off Meeting, Luxembourg October 19th-20th 2009
MINUTES
Participants:
Antonio Consoli (Eurostat) [email protected]
Giulio Barcaroli (Istat) [email protected]
Monica Scannapieco (Istat), [email protected]
Giuseppe Sindoni (Istat) [email protected]
Carlo Vaccari (Istat) [email protected]
Antonino Virgillito (Istat) [email protected]
Peder Naes (SSB) [email protected]
Jenny Linnerud (SSB) [email protected]
Jean-Pierre Kent (CBS) [email protected]
Ronald Ossendrijver (CBS) [email protected]
Marton Vucsan (CBS) [email protected]
Karsten Bjergkvist (DST) [email protected]
Helle Stender (DST) [email protected]
Dieter Profos (SFSO) [email protected]
Janis Linde (CSB) [email protected]
Norbert Talers (CSB) [email protected]
Aiva Irbe (CSB) [email protected]
OCTOBER 19th
Introduction to ESSnets by Antonio Consoli
Antonio Consoli introduces himself as the project manager at Eurostat
of CORA. He mentions a possible prosecution of this network (COmmon
Reference Environment –CORE). About EUROSTAT communication duties, he
confirms that three months reports can be sent without a template,
while intermediate and final report must be conform to a template to
ask to [email protected].
CORA: Generalities by Carlo Vaccari
Carlo Vaccari presents an introduction to CORA, an history of how the
project was conceived and the relation of CORA with other initiatives.
About observers of CORA, two countries are mentioned, namely Australia
and Portugal.
WP1 Description by Monica Scannapieco
A possible strategy for quality control of the project artifacts is
proposed. It follows a discussion on how the steering committee of
CORA (to be composed by both EUROSTAT and CORA partners). A
possibility is to have the people of the technical committee
representing CORA partners. The technical committee is composed by WP
leaders in the persons of:
WP1: Monica Scannapieco
WP2: Rune Gloersen, Jenny Linnerud
WP3: Marton Vucsan
WP4: Dieter Profos
WP5: To be decided by ISTAT
WP2 Description by Jenny Linnerud
Jenny Linnerud presents WP2. Suggestion by Ronald Ossendrijver of a
“workshop” to collect requirements. Jenny asks for suggestions on
people to contact for the questionnaire: IT, business, methodologists?
Giuseppe Sindoni suggests a possible structure of the questionnaire
into IT, business, methodology section and to send it to ITDG people.
WP3 Description by Marton Vucsan
Marton Vucsan outlines that he would like that premises and choices
present in the document produced by CBS people would be reviewed in a
couple of weeks.
WP4 Description by Dieter Profos
Dieter Profos presents WP4. He outlines it’s important to identify
people expert in legal aspects within each participating institution.
Marton remarks we should consider different kinds of licenses, also
“half-closed” licenses. Giuseppe Sindoni will provide contacts with
open data foundation initiative.
WP5 Description by Antonino Virgillito
It is decided to have a template for deliverables of CORA in MS WORD
2003. It is outlined the need for notification of publications on the
wiki. Jenny suggests the metadata working group on June and Metis
Ginevra on March as possible dissemination places.
Presentation the Sharing Advisory Board (SAB) objectives by Marton
Vucsan
There is a discussion on how managing the inventory of existing
sharing software mentioned in the CORA proposal, with the following
outcomes: (i) WP2 produces the list of software products; (ii) SAB
publishes and maintains the list; (iii) WP5 organize the OSOR section
on statistics on the basis of GSBPM. Consoli (Eurostat) will be
considered as a contact for the point (iii).
There is also a discussion about the best way to organize CORA web
site. It is decided to investigate OSOR hosting of the site.
It is also discussed how ITDG can provide a support for the survey
collection. Jenny proposes to have a support in the “soliciting”
phase.
It follows a discussion on initiatives at national level that are
related to CORA objectives. Carlo Vaccari outlines the Italian CNIPA
Open Source Observatory. Marton Vucsan remarks they have an internal
project in CBS going in a similar direction, Jenny Linnerud mentions
SOA architecture under consideration in Norway.
A preliminary discussion on how organizing the questionnaire is
carried out. The principal out comes are :
*
what: business, technical, organization
*
who: statistical methodologists, IT
*
Possibility of a case study in free text instead of a
questionnaire
Focus on a specific phase of GSBPM, e.g. Run Collection with the
following questions:
*
How do you run collection?
*
What tools are you using?
*
Which organization unit deals with it?
*
Future plans?
*
Improvement plans?
*
Which boxes? 20-30 questions
*
Selection criterion?
*
Shared tools: tools you use and you export?
*
Which kind of cooperation is there?
*
Some further considerations regard: respondent level, additional
questions (5) on motivations, background of respondents
OCTOBER 20 th
Presentation by Ronald Ossendrijver of the document “A Layered Model
for the Production of Statistics”
Some remarks concerning the document are:
*
Defined exchanged formats between tools in the same statistical
process (and across processes), e.g. XML +schema
*
Discussion on the complexity of data and their relationship with
respect to services
*
SDMX and its usage within our CORA architectures
Discussion led by Dieter Profos on WP4:
Three areas are identified by Dieter:
*
Licensing (IDABC contact A.Wronski);
*
Business Model. PC-AXIS, MSIS/NL, Cloud computing
*
Tooling
Concrete contact to be sent by Istat
The meeting ends with a TO-DO List organized by WP.
*
WP1
*
Send minutes
*
Check notification of upload on the WIKI
*
Start organizing next meeting planned in NL on 26/27 January
*
WP2
*
Send a template of a METIS case study by this week for the
questionnaire
*
A first draft of the questionnaire by the end of October
*
Second draft of the questionnaire by the end of November
*
Third draft of the questionnaire by the end of December
*
WP3
*
By next week list of subjects to review, with also general
reviews, some topics that need better insight.
*
WP4
*
First draft of 4.1 and 4.2 by end of November
*
WP5
*
Provide a word template for the deliverable
*
OSOR-web site
*
Wiki stuff, upload
*
Check other forums like: Metadata working group on June,
Metis Ginevra on March
*
Mailing list management
Further Outcomes
Outcomes of discussion with Eurostat
*
Eurostat will pay the 40% of the overall budget in advance.
*
When we will send the intermediate report (M6), we can also
communicate possible modifications to the budget for
dissemination and possible need to postpone the final
meeting.
*
Eurostat offered to host CORA wiki, so the wiki will be moved from
Istat to Eurostat.
*
COmmon Reference Environment (CORE): with the intermediate
report outline requirements for the future CORE Essnet
Outcomes from ITDG
CORA project was significantly appreciated by ITDG members.
*
Support for the questionnaire. Possibility of using ITDG members
for questionnaire delivery and for solicitations.
5.
Appendix 2
==========
WP Leaders Meeting, The Hague, January 26th-27th 2010
MINUTES
Participants:
Monica Scannapieco (Istat), [email protected]
Carlo Vaccari (Istat) [email protected]
Jenny Linnerud (SSB) [email protected]
Jean-Pierre Kent (CBS) [email protected]
Ronald Ossendrijver (CBS) [email protected]
Marton Vucsan (CBS) [email protected]
Dieter Profos (SFSO) [email protected]
JANUARY 26th
Presentation of the Agenda by Carlo Vaccari
The meeting started on time at 9:30. Carlo Vaccari presented the
agenda of the meeting reported below.
FIRST DAY January 26th :
9:30 - 9:45 Presentation of the agenda by Carlo Vaccari
9:45 - 10:45 WP2 Status by Jenny Linnerud
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Discussion WP2
11:30 - 12:30 WP3 Status by Jean-Pierre Kent
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 17:00 Discussion WP3
SECOND DAY January 27th :
9:30 - 10:30 WP4 Status by Dieter Profos
10:30 - 11:00 Discussion WP4
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 WP1 and WP5 Status by Monica Scannapieco
11:45 – 13:00 Planning Intermediate Meeting and Report
WP2 Status by Jenny Linnerud and Discussion
Jenny Linnerud presented the work done on WP2. The questionnaire has
been designed with SN leading this task.
A first draft of the questionnaire was submitted for evaluation to
CORA partners on November 9th 2009, together with a cover letter
introducing the purpose and the content of the questionnaire.
On December 10th 2009, a new version of the questionnaire was sent by
SN in order to have:
a) a pilot round/field test by all organizations participating in CORA
b) a review and approval round, to be conducted in parallel, by the
technical committee.
Jenny outlined that the questionnaire was almost completed with just
some specific questions to be discussed together at the meeting,
namely:
*
Need to define the target population for the questionnaire. It was
decided to send it to ITDG mailing list plus MSIS mailing list,
specifically MSIS countries present at the last meetings, Canada,
Australia, Korea, New Zealand and the US.
*
How many reminders. Two reminders for the questionnaire answered
were scheduled.
*
Anonymity issues. There was a discussion on how to treat anonymity
of countries answering the questionnaire. It was decided to keep
anonymous the results of the questionnaire analysis, unless
exceptions to treat in an ad-hoc way.
*
Sharing of information among respondents. It was decided for share
all the results among the respondents, either via the project wiki
or via email.
*
Proposal of an online questionnaire. It was decided that it’s
better not to have an online questionnaire, due to the limited
number of respondents and to the specific structure of the
questionnaire (with several attachments).
*
Level of automation. There was a discussion if putting a general
question on the level of automation of IT, but it was decided it
was better not to have it, due to the limited and not clear
information that would have been collected by this question.
*
Missing answers. It was decided to make clear that the
questionnaire needs to be filled by different people in order to
limit the number of missing answers.
*
Question 5.5: The question is about the open source software used
by the organization. It was decided to categorize it into
“development of statistical software” and “statistical software”
categories, with max 5 answers to be specified for each category.
*
Input to WP4: software questionnaires categorized by the GSBPM
structure. The responsibility for the questionnaires thereafter is
by WP4.
*
Next scheduled deadlines: February 1st 2010 for sending the
questionnaire. April 19th 2010 for deliverables 2.2 and 2.3.
However, though the deliverables will be ready by that date, some
preliminary results about the analysis of the questionnaires will
be ready by the intermediate meeting that will be held before.
WP3 Status by Jean-Pierre Kent
Jean-Pierre Kent presented the work done on WP3.
Specifically, he first showed the wiki organization that allowed
conducting the discussion on WP3 done from November 2009 to January
2010. This discussion was organized according to the different
sections in which the document proposed by CBS people at the kick-off
meeting was organized. Moreover he proposed to use the wiki also as
forum for general comments on the architecture.
A discussion followed on some questions /comments proposed by the CORA
partners during the discussion on the wiki, including:
*
Layers and levels: it was decided to remove the level attribute
from the element class of the Construction Dimension class model
*
From architecture to view: there was the proposal to call the
architecture “view”. Istat disagreed on this.
WP3 Technical Issues by Ronald Ossendrijver
Ronald Ossendrijver presented a proof-of-concept software prototype
developed by CBS people. The prototype showed how a process can be
structured as a sequence of services with related input/output.
Moreover some technical challenges concerning how to make operational
CORA architecture were outlined, namely:
*
Orchestration of services to cope with process view
*
Behaviour of services: need to elaborate on construction prescript
and transformation model concepts
*
How to model services composed just by other services
SECOND DAY January 27th :
As scheduled, the meeting started at 9:30. Before the scheduled
presentation by Dieter Profos, there was a discussion finalized to
have a clear to do list for WP3. The main outcome of the discussion is
a stricter collaboration between Istat and CBS for the development of
CORA architecture. Specifically, the two groups will collaborate to
define a “proof of concept” with two different technological
platforms: .net (CBS) and java-based platform (Istat). First contact
between the two groups is scheduled for the week 1-5 February 2010.
WP4 Status by Dieter Profos
Dieter Profos presented the status of WP4.
As far as deliverable 4.1, the outline of the deliverable was
presented with a preliminary draft of the two sections in which the
deliverable is organized. A discussion followed on how to proceed to
work on these two sections, with an assignment of responsibility to
Istat for the first section and to SFSO for the second.
For both deliverables 4.2 and 4.3, WP4 needs input from WP2
questionnaire. Moreover, in order to organize the software collected
by WP2 under the GSBPM model, WP4 also needs a coordination with WP5
for the purpose of implementing the CORA web site section related to
such repository.
Dieter Profos also provided a link to a reference to the standardized
process for validation, editing and imputation:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/quality/documents/RPM_EDIMBUS.pdf
It followed a discussion on the need of a closer collaboration between
SFSO and CBS for the definition of the architecture. More
specifically, Dieter Profos highlighted the need to take into more
account SFSO requirements and previous work. It was decided:
*
To map CORA model to different technical architectures in order to
prove that the CORA model is able to support different realities.
*
CBS and SFSO to work specifically on the mapping between CORA
architecture and a previous proposal of an architecture supporting
statistical processes by SFSO.
WP1 and WP5 Status by Monica Scannapieco
Monica Scannapieco first outlined next WP1 deliverables, namely
preliminary report (M3) and intermediate report (M5). There was a
discussion on how to organize the intermediate report according to the
Eurostat template, available in the wiki section dedicated to WP5.
The input from partners are:
*
Work progress and achievements during the period (according to the
structure of the template)
*
Status of the use of resources: specifically each partner will
have to send the person/months per workpackage used in the period
Partners will be required to send such inputs before the intermediate
meeting.
It was decided to have the intermediate meeting in Rome on 23-25
March.
Budget modifications: Istat is collecting possible budget
modifications in order to send them to Eurostat by mid February. Each
partner is required to send such modifications (Examples of budget
modifications are: new dissemination events, moving funds between cost
figures, adding/removal personnel, etc.) by February 5th.
As far as WP5, the following things have been done:
*
CORA Wiki
*
Mailing lists
*
CORA web site on OSOR
*
Definition of a CORA deliverable template
It is important that partner contribute to start feeding the CORA web
site.
The meeting ended at about 14:30.
Date of dissemination
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