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Data Liberation Initiative Update
ACCOLEDSNovember 2012
David Price, Chantal Ripp
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Outline: Changes in staff Changes in committees Activities Free data from StatCan Licence for DLI Priorities and transition to new technologies
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Wayne Smith
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Chief Statistician
As of July 2010
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Peter Morrison
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Assistant Chief Statistician
Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field
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Jane Badets
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Director General
Census Subject Matter, Social and Demographic Statistics Branch
As of November 2010
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Heather Dryburgh
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Manager
Microdata Access Division
As of April 2010
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David Price
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Chief
Access, Infrastructure, Innovation and Development (AIID) section
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TBD
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Unit Chief
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Reference Services Coordinator,
Chantal RippData Liberation Initiative
•Monitoring the dlilist•Survival Guide•DLI Update•Annual Report•Web page content•And other project
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Responsible for administrative matters
Look after your travel forms
Answers all your questions related to these famous forms
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Renée Rocan
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATES
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Takes care of :• the FTP site
• the website
• registrations on listserv
• Passwords
Jackie will be with us until Sept 2013
Works 3 days a week
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Jackie Godfrey
ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATES
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Retirement of Michel Séguin, October 2012 Chief of the Access to Metadata and Public
Microdata Section Accepted to be volunteer as part of the Work
Force Adjustment Priority:
Transition to new technologies Knowledge transfer
Retirement of Linda Harding, July 2012 Positions has been identified as part of the
revision Opted to be volunteer as part of the Work
Force Adjustment
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES
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Membership remains at 75 Goal last year was to approach CEGEP
• Student protests
Follow-up with other colleges that did contact us for information related to the DLI
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DLI MEMBERSHIP
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Met in Ottawa October 2-3 Discussed DLI Process and infrastructure Presentation by Sylvie Lafortune on the results of the
DLI Contacts and Designate Survey Investigated DLI Subscription Pricing
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External Advisory Committee
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Atlantic: Peter Webster – Saint Mary’s University – co-chair Suzanne Drapeau - Nova Scotia Community College – last meeting Spring 2013
Quebec Nathalie Vachon– Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Gaston Quirion – Université Laval Ontario
Sylvie Lafortune – Laurentian University – co-chair Vince Grey– Western University
West Gail Curry - University of Northern British Columbia
Peter Peller – University of Calgary Library Director
Margaret Haines – Carleton University Researcher
Lisa Dillon - Université de Montreal Statistics Canada
Pamela Best – Special Surveys Division George Sciadas, CSBP/CPSE
Heather Dryburgh – Manager of Microdata Access Division David Price – Microdata Access Division
Senior Advisors Ernie Boyko – International DLI Wendy Watkins – Carleton University
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Members of External Advisory Committee
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Atlantic Siobhan Hanratty – University of New Brunswick - Chair Ann Smith – Acadia University
Quebec Caroline Patenaude – Université de Montréal Nathalie Vachon - Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Ontario Sandra Keys – University of Waterloo Liz Hill – University of Western Ontario
West Gail Curry – University of Northern British Columbia Marilyn Andrews – University of Regina
Chair of Education Committee is an Ex-officio (non-voting) members of the EAC
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Education Committee
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Several Teleconference sessions Will be meeting Jan/Feb 2013 in Ottawa Summary of activities
Outreach material repository Training Repository Review of results from DLI Contacts survey from a
regional perspective
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Education Committee
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To recognize Statistics Canada divisions who provide exemplary access to their data products, documentation and expertise, the DLI periodically bestows the Exemplary Access Award to a deserving division.
Past recipients included: Industry Accounts Division (2011) Health Statistics Division (2009) Special Surveys Division (2008) Census Operations Division (2006).
DLI Award Committee – looking for volunteers
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DLI Exemplary Access Award
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Thank you to the University of Northern British Columbia who hosted the online survey and creation of a database
Thanks to the Education Committee and to Sylvie Lafortune who accepted to do the analysis
Gail Curry volunteered to deliver the presentation on the results
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2012 DLI Contacts and Designate Survey
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Training Repository• Will be moved to Carleton University• DLI Research paper series• Recorded Webinars will be stored at Carleton
University
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DLI ACTIVITIES
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Annual Report 11/12 Was mailed out in September
New sectional content included Key advantages to DLI Membership Review of licence agreement Review of the continuum of access and open data
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DLI Licence DLI subscription fees have not supported the purchase of
data – but it needed to be updated to reflect the changes in Statistics Canada’s dissemination of open data.
Standard Data products PUMFs CIHI Postal Code Other
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Most of the data on the on StatCan Web site is now free
including Census and Geography boundary files (excluding FSA)
CANSIM free since February 1st 2012
Exception Custom tabulations remains for a fee Third party material (postal code products)
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Free data from StatCan
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APPENDIX I -Licence agreement for Public Use Microdata Files (PUMF)
PUMFs still requires a licence Non DLI users have to go to StatCan first to sign the licence
and then obtain the PUMFs required DLI cannot share the data with non DLI members as it was
before They can use the file on a commercial basis but they cannot
share the data file
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LICENCE FOR DLI -- EXCEPTIONS
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APPENDIX II - License Agreement for the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) Research Analytic Files from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
DAD Research Analytic Files Cannot share with non DLI members Cannot use for commercial purposes
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LICENCE FOR DLI -- EXCEPTIONS
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Postal code files and data Cannot share with non DLI members Cannot use for commercial purposes For now, remains as is No new files until negotiations with Canada post will be
completed Others
Health Canada Fisheries and Oceans Canada Citizenship and Immigration Canada Canadian Heart Database Centre
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LICENCE FOR DLI -- EXCEPTIONS
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DLI Newsletter Volume 13, issue 1 released October 2012 Working on a special issue for Winter Volume 14 to be released in Spring 2013
If you have any announcements for upcoming issues or would like to submit an article discussing an aspect of working with data or providing data services, please don’t hesitate to contact us at dli-idd@statcan.gc.ca
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DLI ACTIVITIES
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DLI SURVIVAL GUIDE Section 1, 2 and 3 have been revised and changes
updated on the DLI website. Continuing the process of updating the survival
sections.
If you have comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to send them to me directly, Chantal.Ripp@statcan.gc.ca
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DLI ACTIVITIES
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Nesstar Temporary keys restored Licence has finally been approved 5 year renewal
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DLI ACTIVITIES – Reference Tracking
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Review of electronic communication strategy, including, investigating new infrastructure opportunities for • the DLI listserv• Website, and • FTP site.
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Looking forward - Priorities
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Investigated whether a corporate solution existed Reviewed potential electronic mailing list software
and other communication platforms • Including Open source solutions and proprietary platforms.
Indentified a potential software solution that will meet the DLI needs
Next steps – review proposal by Technology Review Committee, December 2013
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Priorities - Listserv
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Goals: Ensure that the DLI website presence is coherent, responds to the needs of clients (and potential clients), has a sustainable infrastructure, and in line with GC standards and policies.
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Priorities - website
Rewrite / Republish
ContentInventory
Archive
EvaluateAnd Assess
Rewrite for findabilityRepublish new content
Crawl site Identify page owners Categorize pages
Archive onlineArchive offline
Review pages Evaluated content Assess quality
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Moving to e-FT• As of January 2011, e-FT became Statistic
Canada’s corporate solution for external file transfers.
• The ITSD FTP would no longer be supported by Statistic Canada.
Access through FTP software Each user will have a user name and
password
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Priorities – FTP
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