Country Report: Finland

Rina Tammisto

Nordic Forum for Geography and Statistics, NFGS 2019

14 May, 2019

Content

• Scope

• What has happened in the last two years

• The Geospatial Reference Architecture of Statistics Finland

• Ability to cooperate in a new way

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”Integration of Statistics and Geospatial data”

• Target at many levels

• Global: UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN GGIM),

UN Expert Group on Integration of Statistics and Geospatial

Information, UNECE/Modernstats

• European: Eurostat, UN GGIM Europe, Eurogeographics,

European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS)

• Nordic: Nordic Forum for Geography and Statistics (NFGS)

• National

• Organisational

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From politics to action

• A well-organised and managed production environment takes

care of coherency and interoperability

• The most efficient way is to ensure integration on an

organisational and national level…

• …but the tools and standards should be defined on a higher level

• Organisational best practices and national level experiences of

cooperation are the best input for defining higher-level targets

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What has happened in the last two years…

• In 2017 the new GIS Technology Review was completed

• Implementation project until 4/2018

• Agreed renewals in practise

• GIS technology choices

• New ways to produce

geospatial statistics –

spatial data type into use

• …

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The GIS

Technology

Review

2017

Social Statistics Integrated Information System (Stiina)

(2015, 2016-2020)

• Project to modernise the statistical

production of social statistics

• Vision of the new system

• Information Architecture and

Modernization of Statistical

Production

• CSPA, SOA

• Process modelling following GSBPM

• practices, challenges and

outcomes

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2017

Conseptual information content on person

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Person

core

information

Education

Information

Labour market

Information

Health

Information

Person

Relationships

Information

Housing

Information

Legal

Information

Economic-

information

Living

conditoins

Information

Building and

dwelling

Information

UKK

Business and

enterprise

Information

YTY

Location

Information

Metadata

2017

Data Architecture –project (2017 to 2018)

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Architecture Framework – model for the Geospatial

Reference Architecture

Information

Systems

architecture

Business

architectureTechnology

architectureData

architecture

Principle level

• Strategy Map

• Roles

• Services

• Conceptual Model

• Future Actions

• Road MapThe GIS

Technology

Review 2017

2018

Geospatial

Data

Warehouse

The Geospatial

Reference

Architecture –

A Strategy Map

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Strategic Goals

• Centralised operating model for production of geospatial information

• Geospatial information is defined in the logical geospatial data warehouse

• Geospatial information is utilised uniformly

• Geospatial information is provided according to user needs

• Cooperation with other geospatial information producers

• e.g. National land survey of Finland

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The Geospatial Reference Architecture –

A Process Map

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The Geospatial Reference Architecture –

Geospatially related Roles

1 Steering• Owner of the Geospatial Issues

2 Development, Management, Maintenance• Owner of the Geospatial Reference Architecture

• Responsible for

• Geospatial Operating Architecture

• Geospatial Data Architecture

• Geospatial related System and Technology Architecture

• Geospatial Methods

• Co-operation in the Geospatial field

• (IT architect)

• Contact point (statistical production, customers)

• Maintenance of the shared geospatial data warehouse

• Maintenance of shared geospatial services

3 Statistical production

1

2

3

Implementation of the Geospatial Reference Architecture – 2019

• Implementation of the Geospatial Reference Architecture (starting in March 2019)

• The Geospatial Management Group was established: 4 geospatial experts

• Owner unit decided (Standards and Methods Unit)

• Steering organised: 3 directors (Standards and Methods Unit, Population and

Social Statistics Unit and ICT Management Unit)

• Geospatial Contact Point: help and support center

• Experiences so far:

• First impressions: make actions consistent, objectives relating to interoperable data

and services closer to realisation

• Good to have steering capable to make (all) decisions related to geospatial actions!

• Clear responsibilities - releases statistical units working with issues they are not

usually familiar with

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Ability to cooperate in a new way

New kind of cooperation between Statistics Finland and the National Land Survey of

Finland (NMA)

• Interoperability as a target

• Concepts, processes, data and services

• Architecture as a tool

• A shared vision

• Defined roles

• Shared descriptions

• A shared roadmap of development

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