Machine Learning
Progress
Fifteen persons have joined the project team: Italy (5), Poland (2), UK (2), Mexico (1), Netherlands (1), USA (1), Canada (1), Switzerland (1) and Belgium (1 from the Flemish Institute for Technological Research). Four members of the Blue-Sky Thinking ML team agreed to continue with the ML project.
Introductory documents were posted on the ML project home. This included the position paper and the project proposal from the Blue-Sky Thinking Network team, and an introduction to the project and the project manager. The documents were circulated to members prior to a first virtual meeting held on March 19. The meeting was attended by Italy, UK, Netherlands, Canada, Poland, USA, Belgium and the UNECE. After the introductions, discussions took place on the high-level objectives of the project and potential pilot studies (work package 1).
It was decided to hold a virtual planning meeting at the beginning of April. After the meeting, a doodle pool was sent to set a 2.5 hour meeting between April 1 and April 3. The UK offered to host a face-to-face sprint meeting once the planning is completed and the work starts. We are looking at having this meeting early to mid-May. A questionnaire was sent to each member to collect information needed to prepare the April planning meeting and May face-to-face meeting.
Next Steps
Continue to welcome members from other organisations.
Hold a virtual planning meeting between April 1 and April 3 to finalize the scope of the project and its work packages, the composition of the WP sub-teams and, an initial list of pilot studies and their participating organisations.
Determine a soon as possible the feasibility and dates of a sprint meeting at the beginning to mid-May, and start planning accordingly.
Risks and Issues
| Issue | Mitigation |
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The project has just started. The November workshop is not far away. | Set a reasonable scope and initial deliverables for 2019. |
Number of participating organisations. | Organisations are welcomed to join before the virtual planning meeting at the beginning of April. Not a big issue yet, but if more organisations are needed, the project may raise it to the Executive Board before the next progress meeting. |
Strategic Communication Framework phase 2
Progress
Next Steps
Risks and Issues
News from the Groups | |||
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Blue-skies Thinking | IN PROGRESS | The core group was established and now has 10 members. The group so far identified 13 potential topics. The first six of these have been discussed and actions for follow-up were decided upon. | |
Developing Organisational Capability
| Skills and Capability Framework | IN PROGRESS | No progress so far. |
| Promotion Forum | IN PROGRESS | We are aware that we need to make our outputs visible on the wiki, and promote and share our work. Moreover, we should prepare flyer or promotion materials for the CES conference in June. | |
| Setting vision in NSOs | IN PROGRESS | No progress so far. | |
Other | Currently, DOC Group is working on organisation of Culture Evolution Workshop held in September 2019, in Geneva. By 29th of March we plan to send first information notice together with the invitation letter to the countries. | ||
Supporting Standards
| Linking GSBPM and GSIM | IN PROGRESS | The task team, jointly chaired by Istat and Statistics Canada, had started its work. The discussion is still focused on agreeing on a template and the elements to be considered when mapping GSIM information objects to GSBPM sub-processes. A paper from 2013 (Unece Work Session on Statistical Metadata) descrbing metadata flows is a good starting point. The task team is meeting every three weeks. |
| Core Ontology | IN PROGRESS | Main objective of the task team is to build common semantic model and vocabulary for official statistics. The team will first review the paper (COOS - A Core Ontology for Official Statistics. Draft Community Group Report -2018) and work on following activities:
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| Alignment GSBPM and GAMSO | IN PROGRESS | The task team, chaired by Mexico, had started its work. Mexico prepared a paper with some proposals that was discussed by the task team. Agreement was reached on the OPs of GSBPM to consider and that need further explanations. The different role in GSBPM and GAMSO of common OPs will be clarified and examples will be provided. The task team is meeting every four weeks. | |
| Metadata Glossary | IN PROGRESS | The metadata glossary group has started working (even though without the secretariat support from Unece). The group intend to conclude the work initiated a few years ago and suspended in 2018 | |
| Other | The Group is helping in organising the ModernStats World Workshop 2019. Unece modernisation program, the models and the new activities of Supporting Standards Group as well as two countries experiences (Norway and Statistics Canada) were presented at NTTS 2019 (12-14 March) in a special topic session. | ||
Sharing Tools | Digitizing/editing CSPA document | IN PROGRESS | |
| Adding Services to Catalogue | IN PROGRESS | ||
| Communicationg restated CSPA | IN PROGRESS | ||
| Other | A mapping was been done between the new Requirements/Features concept and information currently part of the documentation in the catalogue. | ||
- GSIM sprint 23-24 January
- Date Integration Workshop (21-23 May, Belagrade)
- DissComm Workshop (12 - 14 June)
- ModernStats World Workshop (26-28 June)
- HRMT Culture Evolution Workshop (11-13 September)
- Data Collection Workshop (9 - 11 Oct, Geneva)
- Statistical Data Confidentiality (29-31 October, the Hague)
- Modernisation Workshop (19 - 21 Nov)