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Welcome!!!
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Agenda for today:
13:00 - State-of-the-art of Remote Access to Confidential Microdata (D4.1)
13:30 - Researchers’ Needs (survey preliminary results)
14:00 - Pilot and Proposal for a European Remote Access Network
14:30 - Coffee break
14:50 - Issues related to the European Remote Access Network
1. Organisation & Workflows
2. IT Infrastructure
3. Legal & Contractual aspects
15:10 - Working Groups (parallel sessions)
15:50 - Coffee Break (Working group coordinators to prepare the conclusions of their respective
group)
16:00 - Presentation of results & main findings of the working groups
16:30 - Overall discussion
17:15 - Wrap up
17:30 - Closure of the Workshop
19:30 - Social Dinner - Park Side Restaurant
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Report on the state of the art of
current SC in Europe
David Schiller (IAB)
Data without Boundaries (DwB) - WP4 workshop before NTTS
Brussels, 4. March 2013
Introduction DwB and WP4
Data without Boundaries (DwB)
• FP7 funded, 28 partners, runtime May 2011 to April 2015.
WP4 – Improving Access to OS Microdata
• Survey about Remote Access (RA) in Europe.
• Concept for a European Remote Access Network.
• Pilot for a limited network.
Partners of WP4:
IAB (Germany), Destatis (Germany), CASD (France), SDS (UK), CBS
(Netherlands), CNRS (France), NSD (Norway), ONS (UK).
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Introduction RA, survey and D4.1
Remote Access (RA) understood as:
“any kind of access solution that uses a secured
connection to the servers of the respective data provider,
whereby the user can see the real, highly-detailed and
confidential microdata”. It is not about “job submission”.
Survey about eight RA solutions with focus on IT was carried
out. Focus on NSIs and CESSDA archives.
-> DSt (Denmark), ONS (UK), MONA (Sweden), SORS (Slovenia),
CBS (Netherlands), SDS (UK), CASD (France), IAB (Germany)
Resulting “Report on the state of the art of current SC in
Europe”
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Findings of the survey
Some of the findings of the survey should be highlighted
organized in three groups:
1. Organisation & Workflows
2. IT Infrastructure
3. Legal & Contractual aspects
Organisation and workflows
• First Remote Access solution
 Denmark in 2002
• Management of day-to-day work
 In general RDC staff and IT department. Sometimes
supported by external contractors
• Hardware/Software installation
 Normally done by the researcher. Exception: IAB and CBS
• Output checking
 Done by RDC staff and/or supporting department.
IT Infrastructure
• Log-on
 Password, IP range, biometrics, token etc. (at least two)
• “Access devices”
 Thin client/SD-Box, normal PC, hardware for fingerprint
• Supporting software
 Mainly Citrix but also MS and special solutions
• Secured connections
 Encrypted VPN tunnels through the internet (except ONS)
• Data storage
 Text files, SQL database, statistical package (e.g. SAS, Stata)
Legal & Contractual aspects
• Who is allowed to access data
 E.g. restriction to inhabitants, granted by committee,
special group (non-commercial research)
• Access from where…
 Anywhere, Institution or safe centre
• Output checking
 In Denmark and Sweden done after the output is send
• Export confidential data to an institution in another
country?
 Four said yes, four said no.
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Summary and Conclusion
• Although everybody is doing more or less the same, the
solutions differ in the details.
• Different interpretations of the law and different data access
cultures influence the solutions.
• High and well-recognized security standards are needed.
• To improve access to confidential microdata harmonization
and connect ability is needed.
• State of the art IT functionalities should be used.
• The report will be updated to reflect the changing landscape
in Europe.
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Want to learn more?
DwB Deliverable 4.1:
Report on the state of the art of curent SC
in Europe
http://www.dwbproject.org/about/public_
deliveraples/d4_1_current_sc_in_europe_r
eport_full.pdf
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