Renewing statistical e-publications 18/5/18 Renewing statistical e-publications Markku Huttunen Nordic Web Seminar 18-19.4.2016, Copenhagen

E-publishing consept of Statistics Finland Consept designed 2003-2004 as part of the renewal of statistics section of the website Consept to production 2004 (fi) and 2005 (en, sv) XML publication structure and tools put to use 2007-2010 in all 190 statistics Since then published 600 yearly releases Releases and e-publications written and published by statistical specialists Multichannel publishing based on strict structure (statistical release) 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Dissemination process - XML and PC-Axis 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Has the concept stand the test of time? On the plus side E-publication consept replaced print (HTML + PDF) Automated multichannel publishing (RSS, E-mail, Twitter) Keeping publications easily accessible to all (open archive) Database archive in production 2010-> (not open UI) On the minus side Cross sectional content Publication texts are quite far from good storytelling Linking releases and database should be deeper (are database updates enough?) Needs of different user groups and different user devises? Heavy publishing process and tools (ad hoc publishing needs?) 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Developing statistical e-publishing, definition project (01/2016-08/2016) Evaluation of the structure of statistical e-publishing Evaluation of the contents of statistical e-publishing Evaluation of the technology (Arbortext XML-editor) Evaluation of the need to publish contents (mainly database tables) outside the publication times of statistical releases Evaluation of the needs of geographic information of statistical e-publishing 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Customer survey 22.3.-7.4. website Answers (website total 423) Pop up link on the statistics pages (fi): 343 Link on the main page (fi): 30 Pop up link on the statistics pages (sv): 30 Link on the main page (sv): 2 Pop up link on the statistics pages (en): 20 Link on the main page (en): 1 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Customer survey 22.3.-7.4. Twitter How should publishing of statistics be developed? Respond to the survey! (en) Impressions 647 Total engagements 10 Retweets 4 Link clicks 3 Detail expands 2 Profile clicks 1 How should publishing of statistics be developed? Respond to the survey! (fi) Impressions 1810 Total engagements 14 Retweets 6 Link clicks 5 Detail expands 2 Profile clicks 1 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Customer survey 22.3.-7.4. Facebook 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Results from the survey 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Results from the survey 2 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Results from the survey 3 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Results from the survey 4 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Results from the survey 5 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Topic structure and statistical releases 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Topic structure of nordic websites SF: 26 main topics / 253 statistics (incl. 100 OSF statistics) SCB: 22 main topics / 121 sub topics / 463 statistics (incl. OSW statistics) DK: 13 main topics / 76 sub topics / 271 statistics SSB: 22 main topics / 139 sub topics / 556 statistics HI: 5 main topics / 34 sub topics / 115 statistics Excel 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Where do topics come from? Main topic / sub topic / statistics (or product) 5-32 / 0-250 / 0-400 Official/production: classification of official statistics / classification of NSO / structure of production / production oriented User needs: users are consulted / card sorting / eye tracking / expected user interest Users made official: topics based on user needs –> made official / change topics -> users are resisting International: OECD, UN, Eurostat 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Main goals in the next few years for statistical releases and e-publishing? Compediums: stopped year books and similar publications / less statistical compendiums -> more descriptive publications “Web compediums”: analytical publications and articles / publishing more thematic oriented (=cross sectional) content / "survivors“: more interesting commenting and analyzing Techniques: HTML / ePUB / figures from database / enrich releases with graphs / better visualizations / render pages for mobile devices / tablet support / modernize templates and the look and feel of analytical output / interactive digital publications Simplify and enrich: simplify releases vs. enriched/tailormade releases 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Archiving releases and publications Releases: since 2001 / 2008 / 2010 / 1999 incl. discontinued series / 2012 – 2015 online - previous releases in internal store / releases are archived in the statistics own archive / 6 months / (only PDF in many cases) Releases and publications: (news) releases and publications are on the website since 2008 / active and discontinued publications are archived publicly and continue to be available on-line / in next version the 10 last years online - older publications will be available from another system Policy: Archival process is governed by Web Archiving Policy, which is developed in compliance to the ISO standard of the Open Archival Information System and consequently ensures the preservation of information and makes it available to users. 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

Archiving databases Database is archived (even online), but no user interface Database is archived internally - not publicly available Main tables are archived in zip-files and can be accessed in the respective dissemination package Databases are fully archived on CD-ROM once a year 19.4.2016 Markku Huttunen

The roles of a NSI in dissemination Producer of official national statistics (e. g. archiving) To serve as a platform of open data (copyright CC BY) Common government standards must be followed General web standards have to be followed (W3C) Monopoly in the data market is gone - from dissemination to dialog New requirements – are NSI´s becoming economic news media? New kinds of users emerge, namely machines (API´s, LOD) Producer of official European statistics (Vision 2020) ESS dissemination vs. NSI dissemination Taxpayers money should not be wasted 18-22 Oct 2015 Markku Huttunen

Thank you! Markku Huttunen / markku.huttunen@stat.fi Nordic Web Seminar 18-19.4.2016, Copenhagen