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Editing systems user group - intro

Editing systems user group30 September 2013

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Content1. Where does it come from? 2. Agenda3. Terms of reference4. A few issues worth mentioning

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Where does is come from?• Directors' Meeting approved IT Strategy for Eurostat (Doc.

791_2.3)• Product Family Management an inherent part (chapter 4.3

of Doc. 791_2.3_annex A)• Four families to start with: data exchange, production,

dissemination and data editing systems. • Petra Sneijers and Alin Popescu are the PFMs (one from

solution providers one from users

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Overall objective• to involve transparently the user community in

the discussion of the EUROSTAT software and product policy

• start first with user consultation how to proceed so users have their say and benefit the maximum

• The provided document lists various action possibilities for PFMs • Guidelines for the management of the Products on the

EUROSTAT Product Family List (PFL) 4

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Agenda• today 14:30 -17:30 – introduction and presentations of the

current state of EDIT, its use

• Thursday,  03/10/2013; 9:30 – 12:30  – training, voluntary session for those who would like to learn more on how to work with EDIT

• Friday, 04/10/2013; 9:30 - 12:30 – feedback session from users in the form of round table of discussion in groups

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Today's agenda• General presentation EDIT • VIP.V presentation about specific requirements for editing

service• On-going and accomplished implementations, lessons

learned • Services related to EDIT provided by dir B• Planned interface changes

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Proposed feedback session• How to organise the group: terms of reference, how should it

work? • Mandate, role, organisation of the user group and content of

the meetings• How should the procedures for implementation, look like?

• draft requirements, specifications format• Specific advice: on EDIT Interface and user workflow• What functionality would you like to see in EDIT that is not

there? • Required functionalities, enhancements, feedback on

VIP.Validation proposals7

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How organise user group?(The most important item for this meeting)

TIMETABLE Meetings are organised every ???,

METHODS OF WORK / TYPES OF ACTIVITES Face to face meetings, training activities and presentations. Internet information exchange means, exchange forums,

e.g. wikis, JIRA.

MEMBERSHIP Any suggestion to improve the approach?

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Objectives Involve user community inside Eurostat to design and improve

data editing systems to better match user needs Inform a user community about standard data editing systems their functionality and development/ evolution plans

Provide editing systems developers / maintainers with direction as well as specific functionality to be included in the following versions.

Prioritize user requirements to match available development / maintenance resources.

Provide editing systems implementers with directions as well as guidelines for user friendly way of system implantation.

Inform one another about successful implementations, good practices and lessons learned.

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Outputs

Editing systems reflecting needs of the user community. Proliferation of state-of-the-art knowledge and good

practices in Eurostat regarding Editing systems. Group operating rules, guidelines, templates, meeting

minutes meeting documents and presentations. ???

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Editing info space

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Vocabulary - Editing definition

EDITING is the process of detecting and handling errors in data. It usually includes three phases: the definition of a consistent system of

requirements, their verification of given data, and elimination or substitution of data which is in

contradiction with the defined requirements.12

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Vocabulary - Validation definitionThe process whereby data are analysed before official release or acceptance with a view to avoiding errors and eliminating poor quality data.

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ReportDecision

Feedback toData providers

Data ofacceptable

qualityQuality check

Data

Data correction

Ok

Not Ok

EditingValidation

Done by Data providers and/or EUROSTAT

Done by Data providers

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ESS.VIP coordinationVIP.Validation and other ESS.VIPs provide specification for data validation service that will be around EDIT: SERV: Creating EDITing service according to standard VALIDATION: specific features for compliance monitoring /

validation of incoming data IMS: data models or standard way to describe data and

metadata Part of the process of (used by): ICT, SIMSTAT, EGR

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The EDITing team Georges Pongas

EDIT development Alin Popescu

EDIT implementation, training Hakan Linden

User support, training Bogdan Zdrentu

Help Desk - first Level support Bogumil Dunaj

Second level support (technical) Ewa Stacewicz

Second level support (business analysis for implementations) Gergely Koevesd (Feb'14 )

VIP.Validation implementation