Data Liberation Initiative Update ACCOLEDS November 2012 David Price, Chantal Ripp.

Data Liberation Initiative Update

ACCOLEDSNovember 2012

David Price, Chantal Ripp

2012Statistics Canada • Statistique Canada2

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


Peter Morrison

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Assistant Chief Statistician

Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field


Jane Badets

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Director General

Census Subject Matter, Social and Demographic Statistics Branch

As of November 2010


Heather Dryburgh

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Manager

Microdata Access Division

As of April 2010


David Price

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Chief

Access, Infrastructure, Innovation and Development (AIID) section


TBD

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Unit Chief

Data Liberation Initiative


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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

23-04-21Statistics Canada • Statistique Canada20

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


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


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


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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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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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 [email protected]

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DLI ACTIVITIES

mailto:[email protected]


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, [email protected]

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DLI ACTIVITIES

mailto:[email protected]


Nesstar Temporary keys restored Licence has finally been approved 5 year renewal

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DLI ACTIVITIES


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


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


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


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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QUESTIONS

Data Liberation Initiative Update ACCOLEDS November 2012 David Price, Chantal Ripp.

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