CROS
Collaboration in Research and Methodology for Official Statistics
This ESSnet contributes to the ESS.VIP project "shared SERVices".
It aims at:
increasing awareness on how to use and take part in an ESS service oriented organisation;
[no-lexicon]Introduction: The ESSnet CORE (COmmon Reference Environment) continues the work of a previous ESSnet called CORA (COmmon Reference Architecture), which finished in October 2010, and produced the definition of an architectural model together with proof
Main Objectives: Support the development and maintenance of statistical Information Technology tools for use by NSIs and other national authorities, within the general framework of a common reference architecture for the data life cycle at national level.
This document provides guidelines in order to facilitate sharing of statistical services across the members of the European Statistical System (ESS). Producing official statistics is a highly regulated activity as there are international regulations and standards that result in the adoption of similar requirements in statistics’ production in each country.
This document is the latest version of the ESS Statistical Production Reference Architecture. It can be considered as a subset of the enterprise architecture which breaks it down further for individual process steps, using the GSBPM model as a basis. This document will be an input for the work of the ESS TF on Shared Services.
This document is the latest version of the ESS Enterprise Architecture Reference Framework and is the result of the cooperative work of the ESS EA Task Force which ran from April 2014 to August 2015. This document was subject to a broad consultation of ESS stakeholders and has been endorsed by the ESS Groups of Directors of Methodology (DIME) and IT (ITDG) on 25 February 2016 for its use gui