The globalisation of statistical content

Statistical Journal of the IAOS

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 133-144

  Grossenbacher, Armin ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Statistical Office   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

content; dissemination; globalisation; internet; metadata; Official statistics; semantic web; Web 2.0; web services; widgets

Indexed keywords

CONTENT; DISSEMINATION; GLOBALISATION; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; WEB 2.0; WIDGETS;

INTERNET; METADATA; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEB SERVICES;

STATISTICS;

EID: 68349141158     PISSN: 18747655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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5. For example:-The Commonwealth Governors' annual reports on the state of the colonies to the British Colonial Office in London using the system of reporting by 'Blue Books'. See: Australian Official Statistics, 1822-1945: From Blue Books to White Paper, Ian Castles, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Canberra, International Statistical Institute, 55th Session 2005.-Colin Forster and Cameron Hazlehurst, Australian Statisticians And The Development Of Official Statistics, in Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, 1988. http://www. abs. gov. au/AUSSTATS/abs@. nsf/Previous products/1301. 0Feature%20Article11988?opendocument& tabname=Summary&prodno=1301. 0&issue=1988&num=& view=.
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8. Hermann Habermann, Two Statistical Challenges for the Future, paper presented to the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific, Tokyo, 26 August 2000. http://www. unsiap. or. jp/anniversary/papers/habermann. pdf.
9. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century, 3. 0 paperback edition, London 2007. See also abstracts and comments: http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The World is Flat http://www. wikisumm aries. org/The World Is Flat http://www. greece. k12. ny. us/flat/FLAT%20Notes. pdf.
10. http://developer. yahoo. com/searchmonkey/.
11. Two examples among others:-Eurostat's current news feeds from the European Statistical System, a list of RSS feeds of statistical agencies to be found via the Eurostat Homepage www. ec. europa. eu/eurostat ESS news feeds
12. San Cannon, Snippets of data at a glance: using rss to deliver statistics. Submitted by board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, United States. United Nations Statistical Commission and Economic Commission for Europe, Conference of European Statisticians (UNECE), work session on statistical dissemination and communication, Geneva, 13-15 may 2008). http://www. unece. org/stats/documents/2008/05/dissemination/wp. 3. e. pdf.
13. Blog Search, i. e. ABS. http://www. abs. gov. au/websitedbs/d3310114. nsf/Home/6488F23134FBA08DCA256CD1000 1B0D3?OpenDocument.
14. i. e. UNICEF. http://www. unicef. org/infobycountry/andorra statistics. html.
15. http://www. wikigender. org.
16. Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge, 26-27 May 2008, Stockholm Sweden: http://www. oecd. org/dataoecd/30/32/40293021. pdf.
17. Enrico Giovannini, The Role of Communication in Transforming Statistics into Knowledge http://www. oecd. org/dataoecd/51/53/40728967. pdf?contentId=40728973.
18. Johannes Jütting, Russell Penlington, Jens Dossé, OECD's innovative knowledge tools http://www. oecd. org/dataoecd/15/36/40263533. pdf?contentId=40263544.
19. http://eco. netvibes. com/widgets and as an example of a statistical widget that can be integrated in one's own start page the news releases from Statistics Switzerland in German: http://eco. netvibes. com/widgets/242314/statistikschweiz-bfs-medienmitteilungen or in English: http://fr. eco. netvibes. com/widgets/297025/swiss-federal-statistical-office-press-releases. As another example a full, personalised homepage (like Netvibes or iGoogle) as alternative to traditional web portals which lets individuals assemble their favorite (statistical) widgets, websites, blogs etc., all in one place: http://www. netvibes. com/armin#Statistics Switzerland.
20. Citations from:-Many Eyes Website http://services. alphaworks. ibm. com/manyeyes/home.
21. Swivel Website www. swivel. com-statista Website http://de. statista. org/
22. Gapminder Websites www. gapminder. org and http://www. gapminder. org/graphs. html.-see also: http://numbrary. com/.
23. GapCast: http://www. gapminder. org/video/lectures/ted-2006-debunking-myth-about-the-third-world. html.
24. Jessica Gardner, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Blogs, wikis, and official statistics: new perspectives on the value of Web 2. 0 by statistical offices, International Marketing and Output Database Conference (IMAODBC), Finland, 2008.
25. http://www. internetevolution. com/document. asp?doc id=153587&page number=4.
26. like www. programmableweb. com.
27. News Gator is an example of a (commercial) widget builder and hoster. http://www. newsgatorwidgets. com/media. aspx and http://www. newsgator. com/download/TermsOfService Buzz. pdf.
28. youcalc is a new (August 2008) widgetbuilder service for analytics. 'Private users can build and use analytics widgets free of charge. youcalc widgets are. about extracting insight from data and analysis' See: http://www. youcalc. com/about.-open kapow http://openkapow. com/and dapper http://www. dapper. net/are examples of screen scraper tools to build widgets.
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30. Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2. 0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services, 2008. There are tools helping to build mashups like Yahoo! pipes http://pipes. yahoo. com/pipes/or Microsoft Popfly http://www. popfly. com/.
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33. http://www. w3. org/2001/sw.
34. http://microformats. org/about/and http://www. w3. org/RDF/. There exist instruments to enrich existing content with RDF, so for example Open Calais by Thomson Reuters. 'Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application'. http://www. opencalais. com/.
35. Yahoo! Search http://www. ysearchblog. com/archives/000527. html.
36. RDF search engine swoogle http://swoogle. umbc. edu/
37. RDF query language SPARQL http://www. w3. org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
38. RDF browser called Tabulator http://www. w3. org/2005/ajar/tab.
39. timbl's (Tim Berner Lee's) blog, Semantic Web in the news. Submitted by timbl on Thu, 2008-03-27, http://dig. csail. mit. edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4.
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