1. Moving into the 21 st Century: The IMF’s Transition to the to Web Disseminate Its Statistical Databases Work Session on Statistical Dissemination and Communication Conference of European Statisticians Washington, D.C. September 12-14, 2006

2. Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW The Current Situation “Traditional” products in print & CD-ROM Balance of Payments Statistics Direction of Trade Statistics Government Finance Statistics International Financial Statistics Online products, different formats IFS (à la the CD-ROM) International Reserves (static tables) Coordinated Portfolio Investment Statistics (static tables)

3. Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW First Steps... Spring 2005: Studies Commissioned ♦ Qualitative Usership Research of traditional products (by Research Perspectives) ♦ Review of Best Practices for Web Dissemination of Data (by Sabatier Consulting)  Fall 2005: studies completed and results presented to IMF staff Usership Research Indicated: ♦ Highly user unfriendly ♦ Difficult to search and navigate ♦ Lack of definitions and information on changes ♦ Print publications required to understand data

4. Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW Next Steps... Through Summer 2006: ♦ Statistics Department retreat to consider strategies ♦ Introduction of StatisticsQuery@imf.org to respond to content questionsStatisticsQuery@imf.org ♦ Adoption of Remedy to assign and track queries ♦ Creation of a library of responses to ensure consistency of message and reduce resource requirements ♦ Preparation of a design for an interface based upon best practices of many statistical sites ♦ Selection of tools

5. Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW Next Steps... Tasks That Remain: ♦ Designing a user-friendly web site ♦ Determining the extent of metadata ♦ Ensuring effective user support ♦ Selecting a delivery technology ♦ Developing marketing and pricing strategies

6. A Vision for the Economic Data Warehouse and Future Dissemination Data Web Access to Data Warehouse IMF.ORG Statistics Portal Publications CD ROM Metadata Area Depts 10+ countries External Data OECDMEI INTLINE Research WEO Statistics IFS EXISTING DATA & METADATA DATA SEARCH & ELABORATION Metadata Plus additional metadata National Sources ICS Validated Data Searchable by: Topic Country Source Reports DATA WAREHOUSE National Sources ICS Rationalized Databases, Gaps Identified (disseminate as appropriate)