Nordic webseminar, Helsinki, 6.-7. February 2012 Markku Huttunen Country report 2013 Nordic webseminar, Helsinki, 6.-7. February 2012 Markku Huttunen

Statistics Finland´s organisation 1.1.2013 (more information) Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013

Positive developments 2012 eCourse in statistics reopened Jan 2013 (>) New techniques (XQuery, eXist, CKEditor, JavaScript) New contents, first course opened, five more by the end of the year Tieto&Trendit magazine´s new site opened Dec 2012 (>) New tecniques (Django, Mezzanine, PostgreSQL, Disqus) Some articles from the magazine will be published + some in-between-articles Statistics Finland´s first blog opened as part of the T&T site (>) Discussion tools as a service (Disqus) New search (finally) released in Dec 2012 Technical problems with lanquage module solved Implementation: 200 person-days, 10 persons involved, 2 years calendar time Presentation: 2012 Oslo -> Search engine optimization (>) Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013

Positive developments 2012 (cont.) Statistics eXplorer full interphase opened Sep 2012 (>) Time series population data 1987-2010 (yearly ”census” data) Findicator renewed and opened Mar 2012 New tecniques (XQuery/eXist, Xforms/betterForms, Python, Django, JavaScript) 100 indicators in 3 lanquages based on trilinqual PX-files on PX-Web Statistics Finland´s first Facebook page opened (>) Facebook advertising used: likes from 120 -> 2400+ Statistics Finland´s first mobile service (m.findikaattori.fi/sv) Share functions in social media Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Email Findicator, www.stat.fi, T&T, web school Open Data and Apps4Finland (more in presentation) Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013

Not so positive developments 2012 Problems with the old CMS system (project) A few cases when publishing was delayed One case when publications went out too early Old system is complicated and poorly documented Even some weird things happen sometimes Problems with in house deadlines for statistical releases In house deadline of statistical releases (publications and database tables) is still 14.30 on the day before publishing The deadline is not always met The follow-up process of corrections is integrated with ERP system The time between in house deadline and release time is not sufficient Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013

Development projects 2013 (Statistics section; ongoing) Renewal of the CMS for statistics pages Topic pages (28), home pages of statistics (300), statistics by producer (14), statistics by keyword (1000), all listings and all pageviews Database behind the structure: Zope -> eXist Control of the life cycle of statistics and publications Renewal of the publishing module Timing of statistical releases and publications Timing of PC-Axis files to be published in PX-Web databases Validation of .px-files New techniques XQuery/eXist-db, Python/Django, JavaScript Simple and robust architecture and pubishing process System must be well documented Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013

Development projects 2013 (cont Development projects 2013 (cont.) (Other web propjects to be carried out) Renewal of publishing calendar Finland in figures for tablets and mobile Development of social media Renewal of data collections pages (sub project) Project for dissemination of municipal statistics (sub project) Renewal of intranet CMS Word based editing and publishing pages to intranet (and internet) Django based calendar of events, travel reports, minutes of meetings Sorl/Lucene search, but needs development work Wordpress blogs opened 2012 Markku Huttunen 6.2.2013