Minutes of the 6° Wp2 meeting – 12December 2016, virtual meeting

Participants to the Meeting :

  • ONS: MatthewGreenaway
  • BNSI: GalyaStateva
  • SCB: Dan Wu
  • GUS: Jacek Maślankowski
  • CBS: Olavten Bosch
  • Istat: Monica Scannapieco, Donato Summa, Alessandra Righi

The following Agenda was scheduled for the meeting :

1)Deliverable 2.1 onlegal issue

2)Status of pilot

3)Sofia meeting

For each Agenda item the following major points were discussed and related decisions were taken :

1)Deliverable 2.1 on legal issue

Monica asked to each participant if there were remarks or comments about the last version of the document.

Jacek said that he had no remarks.

Matthew said that he had no remarks, just some minor comments that will send to Monica via email.

Olav said that he had no remarks.

Galya said that she had no remarks.

Dan said that she had no remarks, just some minor comments that will send to Monica via email with the modified version of the document.

Monicareported that the last version of the legal report will be sent to Sogeti consortium by Albrecht Wirthmann and comments from the reviewingboard will be added. Before the final version, Eurostat will revise the document and may suggest modifications or improvements.

2)Status of pilot

Monica made a recap on the pilots decided during the last face to face meeting in Rome and asked to each participant to report about the pilots.

Donato presented the Istat “logical blocks-actually used SW” mapping for each pilot.

URL retrieval pilot

Jacek proposed to add the “data preparation” item into the data preparation layer of the schema (it will include operations such as pattern matching and regular expressions) and said that they will use Istat SW for this pilot.

Monica accepted the modification proposed by Jacek.

Galya said that they will use both their own SW and Istat SW for this pilot.

Olav said that they will use their own SW for this pilot.

Matthew said that they cannot make web scraping of websites on a large scale, at the moment they are making some tests considering a reduced number of websites. He also added that their strategy is based on Bing API, these API are used to retrieve from Bing snippets of websites that will be matched with the data contained in their Business register.

E-commerce pilot

Galya said that they will use both their own SW and Istat SW for this pilot.

Olav said that they will use their own SW for this pilot. He also added that they will share a paper on the technique that they are using by the end of the year.

Matthew said that they are still working on this point.

Monica said that for this pilot experimentations ICT in enterprises survey dataset has to be used as a benchmark.

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Dan said that due to some legal issues they are focusing more on data analysis aspects and in particular on text analysis. She also added that at the moment they don't have a methodological strategy for this pilot.

Jacek said that they will use the Istat methodological strategy for this pilot.

Matthew said that they will use IT data as a benchmark for this pilot.

Social media

Jacek said that they made some progress on this pilot and probably in January some results will be shared. They will also share the Python source code of the used SW.

Galya said that they will use their own SW for this pilot.

Monica asked to each participant to replace the “logical blocks-actually used SW” mapping diagram for each pilot one week before the next WP2 virtual meeting scheduled for the next 12 January.

All the participants accepted to replace the mapping diagram for each pilot within which they are involved within the scheduled date.

3)Sofia meeting

Monica said that, one day before the official start of the dissemination meeting in Sofia, was organized a face to face meeting for the WP2 participants. She asked each participant about the possibility to attend at the meeting.

Galya, Jacek and Olav said that they will be present, Dan said that she is not sure to be able to attend at the meeting (Ingegerd presence is more probable).

Monica informed the participants that was scheduled a time slot of about 70-75 minutes for WP2 presentation and proposed a joint presentation.

Jacek and Galya agreed the joint presentation proposal.

Monica said that during the January virtual meeting there will be the opportunity to verify the progress of each country and plan how to organize the presentation.

To Do activities :

  • Istathas toprovide the minutes of the virtual meeting
  • Each participant has to replace the mapping diagram for each pilot within which they are involved within the scheduled date