1. João Poças, Methodology and Information Systems Department
DISSEMINATION
one input - many outputs
João Poças, Methodology and Information Systems Department
Eurostat, Visualisation Task Force, 6 May 2008

2. « « Topics Current Dissemination Process Publishing Data Tables
Publishing Maps
Some Plans in discussion

3. Current Dissemination Process
Data
Warehouse
Indicators
Tables (pre-defined and user-defined)
Maps
Data and
Metadata
Statistics Portugal Portal
Metadata Database
Dissemination Database (BDD)
XML data and
Metadata
Oracle Database:
values
indicators
Press releases
Publications
Excel and PDF tables
Publications
Other
Data Sources

4. Publishing Data Tables
“bddXplorer” (
XLS
Apache POI
(POIFS)
Java
XML File data; metadata; layout;
Data and
Metadata
CSV
XSLT
User “selections”
Dissemination Database (BDD)
HTML

5. Dissemination Database (BDD)
Publishing Maps
ARCGis
Server 9.2
.Net
Data and
Metadata
Thematic
Maps
Indicator selection
Dissemination Database (BDD)
(Statistical data | Main indicators )

6. Dissemination Database (BDD)
Plans “in discussion”
Publications
Each cell has one “formula” that retrieves data from web service (indicator; rows, cols)
Excel
Templates
Web Service
Data and
Metadata
Dissemination Database (BDD)
PDF
Altova
StyleVision
Templates
XML File data; metadata; layout;
Altova
Authentic
Editor
XSLT
Excel/
Word ?

7. Dissemination Database (BDD)
Plans “in discussion”
“bddXplorer” (
XLS
Apache POI
(POIFS)
XML File data; metadata; layout;
Data and
Metadata
CSV
XSLT
User “selections”
Dissemination Database (BDD)
HTML +
SDMX
Graphs
Maps