Cooperation with Eurostat Ligia Godymirska and Emelie Ekwall Information and Publishing Unit Statistics Sweden 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen RSS at SCB - background In 2006 SCB will stop printing Statistical reports New ways of sharing information and publications are needed Subscription to e-mail newsletters RSS feeds for the press releases 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen RSS with Eurostat Delivering the news from the Eurostat and other countries to our users on the website Find out if the RSS is the tool for the exchange of messages on the European statistical system Using RSS with our governmental agencies responsible for the Swedish official statistics Monitoring the downloads of RSS feeds at Eurostat’s website 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

Sharing the data - background Demand from the users for presenting Sweden in the European context Our website offers structured access to predefined tables and graphs and statistics on regional level but we lack systematic approach on international level We use a program for fetching and converting very simple xml-files for our predefined tables and graphs Some trials before on presenting international data but the statistics was not updated regularly 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

Sharing the data with Eurostat An easy procedure for presenting international data in addition to the Swedish data? XML file can be fetched by a download/extraction program (soon SDMX files) The table will be shown in the style of our Internet presentation Eurostat is responsible for updating the data and SCB is responsible for fetching and presenting the data The news from Eurostat will be offered in EN, DE and FR 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

Keywords system - background Users prefer searching by free keywords but statistics often desires some specific terminology Today an A-Z list of free keywords. Need of controlled vocabulary as well Keywords will be entered into the publishing database - primary cataloguing of our publications In 2006 a project on a better search engine for the website, the statistical databases and the methodological information 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen

Common keywords system – advantages for SCB Getting a list of keywords extracted from a thesaurus and translated to Swedish Gathering information on usage of controlled vocabulary on the website by participating in the pilot project Gathering information on advantages and disadvantages of using one keywords list between different countries – translated to our reality – one keywords list between different governmental organisations 6 - 7 december 2005 SCB - Cooperation with Eurostat - Nordic web meeting - Copenhagen