1. XML- based dissemination process based on Common Structure of Statistical Information (CoSSI)
Harri Lehtinen

2. Dissemination model today
Publication production (OSF)
Excel: publication tables,
graphs
Word: text, tables, graphs
PDF
Printing
Internet
service
Statistics production
Excel:
tables,
images
Word: text, tables, images
FastWeb:
metadata
XHTML
Internet
service
Information retrieval
Information retrieval
Database services
StatFin
ALTIKA
ASTIKA
Population Census
...
Online
service
Information retrieval
Harri Lehtinen

3. What we need: More and better metadata Validation Language versions
All information in a single file
Archiving
Automatical conversion to different dissemination channels
Structured searches
SVG
Software free solution
To add new dissemination channels
Harri Lehtinen

4. XML based dissemination
Modules:
Document metadata
Statistical metadata
Matrices
Tables
Publications
CoSSI
Harri Lehtinen

5. Dissemination using XML
Statistical application
PC-Axis
PX-Web
Publication production
(Monthly, quarterly, yearly publ, publication tables...)
SAS
SuperStar
PX-Edit
PC-Axis
...
PC-Axis
figures
Publication editor
publication.dtd
XML-DB/
File system
Conversions & Publishing
Dissemination database
- publications - matrices
- tables
XML-Editor Epic
tables
HTML
Saxon - XSLT 2.0
HTML
HTML
PDF
XEP - XSL-FO
XML-DB
Metadata:
- statistical md - document md - classifications
- processing md
matrices
Others
WML, txt...
Harri Lehtinen