Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Mobile Devices and Infostreams A Challenge for Websites Armin Grossenbacher Swiss Federal Statistical Office FSO Work Session on the Communication of Statistics, UNECE. Berlin May 2013

2 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO A look ahead Before: Our beautiful Website! Online users are following with decreasing loyalty one or several thematic websites After: Our beautiful Website … and much more Users focus on information aggregators with personalised filtering. And: Mobile devices will become the main mean for access to information

3 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO What does this mean? The information stream is being followed with ever better tools, using different technologies, configured to suit current individual interests Next-generation applications will pull out the information we need when we need it — whether we know we need it or not....

4 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Search: still a key tool, but … Seeking information has changed profoundly. Semantically enabled data often allows for the immediate display of the information sought

5 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO A role as niche productA role as niche product If users find what they are looking for in a stream, they may then drill for further information. This is where traditional websites, specific apps and even print publications may have a role to play as niche products, offering added value for specific user groups with specific interests.

6 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO ►The three pillars of the currently emerging and intensifying online information behaviour Information providers should already be analyzing their implications and anticipating their consequences Mobiles, infostreams, searches

7 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Answers and actions for a forward- looking dissemination architecture Strategic requirement: information available for various channels up to date and suitable for data streams This requires clear separation between content and presentation using a consistent three-tier architecture model: Data – Services - Presentation Presentation Data Services

8 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Meeting the ChallengesMeeting the Challenges A mere redesign of traditional websites is no longer enough to meet the challenges of the increasing use of mobile devices, of infostreams and of searching as means of accessing the huge amount of information available online.

9 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Meeting the Challenges More extensive adjustments are necessary to ensure non-redundant and presentation-independent content management; content availability for many different media and devices; intelligent statistical content delivered through semantic indexing and infostreams. Database-hosted content is king and web services are the servants for delivering statistical information …. also as open (linked) data.

10 Mobile Devices and Infostreams | UNECE Berlin May 2013 Armin Grossenbacher FSO Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Thank You!