1. Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Electronic Publications What, Why, How Good Practice at Swiss Statistics Armin Grossenbacher 19.6.2014 UNECE

2. 2 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Electronic Publications? Electronic Publications: a broad field. Everything that is published electronically? Or only certain content that is published in a certain form? A classification attempt by formats places platforms paradigms

3. 3 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Classifying Electronic Publications #1 HTML Webpage HTML Webpage pdf CDF ePub.folio DigiPub mobi mobi Stores: Apple Google play Google books Amazon Windows Stores: Apple Google play Google books Amazon Windows Publishing FormatsPublishing Places

4. 4 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Classifying Electronic Publications #2 Desktop Tablet Mobile eReader Desktop Tablet Mobile eReader Book Magazine Encyclopedia Book Magazine Encyclopedia Publishing Platforms Publishing Paradigms

5. 5 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Our Requirements at FSO Start with the users and their needs: Find and help to understand statistics (in context). An electronic publication should: 1 provide a coherent story (book paradigm) or a collection of separate stories (magazine paradigm). 2 be able to use all presentation forms that are electronically available. From simple text to tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet for updates and searches in encyclopedias.

6. 6 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Our Requirements at FSO 3 enable social functions (at least sharing, possibly social reading) and analytics. 4 work on the main platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win). 5 be available in the major stores. 6 be available in a format that enables requirements 2 to 5. 7 be produced with as little effort possible by standardised and available instruments.

7. 7 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Our Choice at FSO In our search for a form that fulfils the requirements, we selected.folio, an open format, part of Adobe‘s Digital Publishing Suite DPS.

8. 8 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio How did this format come about? Condé Nast is looking for channels for electronic publications. In-house costs unsustainable. Having Adobe as a partner creates a standard: the Digital Publishing Suite DPS with.folio Known examples: The New Yorker, Wired, The Economist: Intelligent Life, “The.folio file format has become the de facto standard for highly interactive digital publications. Because of the fast growth of the digital publishing industry, and the increase in marketplaces that want to leverage.folio, Adobe believes that the industry is better served through the licensing of the.folio specification.” (http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2013/12/readership-metrics-open-folio-format.htm l)http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2013/12/readership-metrics-open-folio-format.htm

9. 9 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio?.folio:  Standardised navigation philosophy  Wide range of presentation possibilities  Integration of internet content  Publication in the major stores  Production based on layout programs, editing systems or web content management systems  Open format (ZIP archive with PDF, HTML, XML).

10. 10 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio Navigation

11. 11 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO

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13. 13 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio at FSO Demo

14. 14 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio & requirements 1&2 Presentation forms for storytelling Text, tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet. 3 Social functions: sharing Marketing functions: analytics, push notification, web preview. 4 Platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win).

15. 15 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio & requirements 5 Major stores. desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win) 7 Integrated into existing production tools, through standardised and existing processes.

16. 16 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO.folio Production Process. folios are devised in layout programs or Content Management Systems CMS..folios contain several articles of one or more pages with various multimedia and interactive possibilities..folios are published and evaluated (analytics) using the Digital Publishing Suite DPS on different platforms.

17. 17 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Looking Ahead .folio Standard guarantees that further developments are carried out by the manufacturer. Easing of burden on users.  Stay open to other forms, special applications for special presentation forms. e.g. at the FSO: Stat@las Chronostat

18. 18 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO The be-all and end-all  Challenge: Rethink publication! Authors and also publication specialists (layout designers, visualisers (storyboard artists), publishers) are challenged in terms of concept with regard to the content that is to be communicated and in terms of the presentation due to the possibilities that the medium is opening up. New ways of working, processes and also changing job descriptions are the result and necessary. Electronic publication offers everything needed to make a story appealing.

19. 19 Electronic Publications| What, Why, How Armin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014 Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Thank you! armin.grossenbacher@bfs.admin.ch dominic.thomas@bfs.admin.ch