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CENSUS OUTPUTS Dissemination Plans Chris Ashford 2011 Census Outputs : Technical Delivery Agenda • The ONS Website – Where are we ? – What do some key customers want ? – What is the ONS vision ? • Dissemination: From “Static” to “Dynamic” – Where were we in 2001 ? – Where might we be in 2012 ? – What’s happening now ? • Research and Development – – – – • ONS “Proof of Concept” ONS Data Explorer Data Mining Collaboration Next Steps & Questions ONS Website Current ONS Website Services Census User Vision ONS Vision “STATIC” 2001: Select area & view list of tables “STATIC” 2001: View table for selected area “STATIC” 2001: View data in a thematic map “DYNAMIC” 2011 : Select, view , & customise from “cubes” “DYNAMIC” 2011: View table “DYNAMIC” 2011 : “Mash Up” Merge Census and schools data on-line. Australian Bureau of Statistics QuickStats : Summaries about locations , with national comparisons MapStats: Thematic maps of selected population characteristics Tables: Topic and location in Excel Community Profiles : Six profiles of key Census characteristics CDATA Online : create tables on a range of topics for all geographies TableBuilder: create your own tables by accessing all variables ABS CData : Select topic ABS CData: Select table ABS CData: Create table ABS CData: Add dimension ABS CData: View added dimension ABS CData: Add another dimension ABS Table Builder: Databases ABS Table Builder : Selection ABS Table Builder : Add Proof of Concept: The proposed approach: • enables the provision of the range of data available from the 2001 Census in traditional and new ways • enables ONS data to be provided to multiple web sites via a common interface. • enables web site development to take place using a number of varied approaches and languages – not tied to a particular framework. • provides an appropriate model for representing and disseminating ONS’ data • supports ONS current and long term business publishing requirements • supports multi-channel publishing using a single source publishing model • enables content to be output in a range of standard formats PoC & SDMX • Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX ML) – Designed to transfer datasets via the internet. – ISO standard for XML with growing adoption – Supports web access by other organisations, eg Eurostat – SDMX fits well with ONS data models. ONS Data Explorer Census Partners • Data Distributors – – – – ONS / NeSS / NOMIS SASPAC / CASWEB / WICD / C2001 WAG / Local Gvt Commerce • ESRC Data Feeds Network • Census Web Services Working Group – www.ukcensusoutputs.net/cwswg Next Steps • Further work by Dec 2009 – – – – Select Final Architecture Investigate automated creation and loading Build a content repository Test performance and capacity • Further work by Jun 2010 – Establish partnership arrangements – Build an initial “external” Application Programming Interface (API) • Further work by December 2010 – Completion of ONS API – Development of Web Applications by SASPAC and ESRC – Testing of API based services and new ONS website.