Item 2 ESS VIP DIGICOM DIME ITDG Luxembourg

Item 2. ESS. VIP DIGICOM DIME ITDG, Luxembourg 28 June 2016 Christine Kormann, Eurostat B 1 Eurostat 1

Overview 1. DIGICOM project and state of play 2. ESS Visualisation workshop (WP 2) 3. Open Data Dissemination (WP 3) Ø First results of the inventory Ø Towards an ESS open data strategy 2 Eurostat

1. The DIGICOM project • DIGICOM aims at modernising communication and dissemination of European statistics • Upgrading statistical products • Systematic dialogue with users • Capacity building 3 Eurostat

1. DIGICOM Work Packages 4 Eurostat

1. DIGICOM- state of play • DIGICOM Steering Group created (13 NSIs represented) • 4 Work Package teams have started working, 18 NSIs involved in total • Inventory of practices conducted among all ESS NSIs on user analysis, Linked Open Data and statistical literacy in March-April 5 Eurostat

1. DIGICOM Deliverables 2016 - Q 12017 Visualisation workshop May Pilot social network Piloting visualisation Inventory report June Requirements and specifications social network platform July Oct Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication Pilot experimental statistics Nov Dec Open data strategy Feb Requirements linked open data Conference March

2. ESS Visualisation workshop May Pilot social network Piloting visualisation Inventory report June Requirements and specifications social network platform July Oct Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication Pilot experimental statistics Nov Dec Open data strategy Feb Requirements linked open data Conference March

2. ESS visualisation workshop (WP 2) ESS visualisation workshop, Valencia 17 -18 May http: //ec. europa. eu/eurostat/cros/content/2016 -visualisation-workshop_en • 1 st event organised under the DIGICOM project • 100 participants: statisticians (nearly all the ESS NSIs), European institutions, data scientists, researchers, graphic designers and data journalists (El Mundo) 8 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop 9 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop Visualisation for analysis: visualisation to discover relevant questions for the analysis, to assess the quality of data (detecting patterns in missing values) and proposing adequate dissemination Network visualisation of the Input-Output table of the economy of the region of Aragon (Spain) Source : Kampal 10 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop Visualisation for dissemination • Different tools for different user needs • Lecture on uncertainty visualisation Display of line charts with uncertainty (based on confidence intervals) Source: Mr Edwin de Jonge, CBS 11 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop Impact of gamification techniques on users • Visualisation methods are able to present complex quantitative in sometimes sophisticated images • How users do actually decode these images to recover the relevant information and improve decision question? • For NON-EXPERT users, gamification enhances the understanding of the information and improves its use for decision making 12 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop Skills: different options for NSIs (internal development, open source, commercial products…), multidisciplinary teams 13 Eurostat

2. ESS visualisation workshop 14 Eurostat

3. Open data dissemination (WP 3) Visualisation workshop May Pilot social network Piloting visualisation Inventory report June Requirements and specifications social network platform July Oct Guidelines for sharing visualisation Concept flagship publication Pilot experimental statistics Nov Dec Open data strategy Feb Requirements study, Linked Open Data Conference March

3. From open data to Linked Open Data 5 star deployment scheme from Tim Berners-Lee 16 Eurostat

3. Differences in open data maturity between NSIs First analysis of the inventory on open data in the ESS, Conducted in March 2016, analysed by WP 3 team • Vast majority of NSIs provides data in an open format • Less than 1/3 have participated in Linked Open Data activities. • Few actively publish in LOD (FR, IT, UK, IE, CH) • There is indication that a lack of standards is hindering the adoption of LOD • Some mention lack of tangible services built using these formats Eurostat 17

3. A complex environment International standards development UNECE linked statistical SDMX standard W 3 C metadata project further development semantic web standards European Open Data projects (OP, DG CONNECT) National open data portals Open Cube project NSIs open data projects Eurostat DIGICOM European Data Portal Coordination Eurostat + NSIs Stat- DCAT Coordination Re-use § APIs Dissemination chain project

3. Open data-next steps Study on requirements (to be delivered by 02/2017) • Identification of stakeholders • Assessment of implementation, use cases (open data portals, SPARQL endpoints), issues (performance, structural validation, trust, skills) • Current initiatives and projects • Collection of requirements and elements for a strategy • Study implemented by contractor, NSI cooperation (visits, feedback…) 19 Eurostat

3. Open data-next steps Towards an ESS open data strategy - Questions • What are the components of the strategy? • • Level of ambition (e. g. Do all NSIs aim at 4 */5 * by 2020? ) What could be an agreed use case? • In which areas is there a need for guidance (formats, standards, use of national and European open data portals, how to address skills gap)? 20 Eurostat