Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Verena Hirsch, FSO Switzerland Using multimedia and the web to look back on 150 years of statistics in Switzerland

2 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO A facelift for publications The front-page design of FSO publications will undergo a facelift for the anniversary year: just as statistics transform "reality" into numbers, pixels can transform front pages.

3 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO New front-pages of publications

4 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO What happened with the FSO since the creation of the office? Which highlights can we isolate in that long time? How can we define highlights? Where do we find documents? What has been left from this long history? How can we present it to the great public without big money? Will it be interesting for not specialized people? Which media are we going to use? In the timeline where had to introduce texts, photographs, but also films and sound. How to initiate interest for the history of FSO? In this question we are still working on… The basic questions

5 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Charts The history of our office would become more and more interesting for some of us. By this time we were thinking about how to present this material.

6 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Creating a timeline The idea of a timeline is to present several types of documents in a chronological order. We had texts, publications, photographs, films from different sources : principally National Archives, several libraries Our one archives of the statistic office Archives of newspapers: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Gazette de Lausanne, le Temps. We called it the Chronostat and you find it on the web. There you find the minutes of the parliament about the FSO, the law texts, the portraits of the 13 directors, films about the different census since 1930, and so on.

7 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO All directors of FSO

8 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO ChronoStat

9 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The first director, details

10 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Official publication

11 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Detail of a newspaper

12 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Census 1950: the oldest men

13 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO with his family studying the questions

14 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO This men is father of 20 children!

15 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The quiz

16 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO

17 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The score and the next play

18 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO 2’668’643 visitors in 2009

19 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Pages visited: more than 1’000’000 each month

20 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The special pages…

21 Title of presentation | Subtitle Author Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The solution for more visitors?