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
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
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.
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.
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