Recent development in the metadata area at Statistics Sweden

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Recent development in the metadata area at
Statistics Sweden

• Klas Blomqvist
• klas.blomqvist_at_scb.se

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Agenda

• New organisation
• Vision
• Ongoing development
• BOSS, micro - macro
• The support organisation

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No development
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No development
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New organisation

• Process orientated organization
• Customer focus
• Increase efficiency
• Standardization
• Harmonization
• Quality control overall quality

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New organisation

• Process department
• Process managers
• Centralized IT and Methodology
• Classifications, Metadata and content
  harmonization
• Implement standard tools and methods
• Responsibility for Metadata
• Process dept, short run
• RD department, architects, long run
• Prioritized development areas
• ISO 20252
• Data collection
• Editing

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Statistics production process
Evaluate and feed back 8
Specify needs 1
Design and plan 2
Build and test 3
Collect 4
Process 5
Analyse 6
Disseminate and
communicate 7
Support and infrastructure 9
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Statistical production process
Specify needs 1
Design and plan 2
Build and test 3
Collect 4
Process 5
Analyse 6
Disseminate and
communicate 7
Prepare dissemination 7.1
Classify and code microdata 5.1
Generate frame and register population 4.1
Design end product 2.1
Build collection instrument 3.1
Produce statistics 6.1
Identify information needs and availability 1.1
Identify customers 1.2
Compile end product 7.2
Edit microdata 5.2
Build and adapt tools 3.2
Edit macrodata 6.2
Design frame, register population and sample 2.2
Select sample 4.2
Establish customer contact 1.3
Disseminate end product to customer 7.3
Impute for nonresponse 5.3
Carry out disclosure control 6.3
Set up data collection 4.3
Design data collection 2.3
Build workflow 3.3
Confirm information needs 1.4
Complement microdata 5.4
Run data collection 4.4
Design processing 2.4
Test collection instrument 3.4
Finalise observation register 6.4
Communicate end product 7.4
Negotiate and contract 1.5
Calculate weights 5.5
Transfer and store data electronically 4.5
Design analysis 2.5
Test tools and workflow 3.5
Interpret and explain 6.5
Dispose and preserve 7.5
Design dissemination and communication 2.6
Conduct pilot study 3.6
Finalise outputs for dissemination 6.6
Design workflow 2.7
Initiate workflow 3.7
Plan production cycle 2.8
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Metadata vision, not official
Evaluate and feed back 8
Specify needs 1
Design and plan 2
Build and test 3
Collect 4
Process 5
Analyse 6
Disseminate and
communicate 7
MACRO
MICRO
Raw data
Source
Structur-ered In data Store
Aggre-gated data store
Cube (output table)
Support and infrastructure 9
Metadata repository SCBDOK, BaS, MetaPlus,
SSD-metadata, BaM, Thessaurus, Publication
database, ESMS, Question data base
Product Data Base
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Ongoing

• KMI, classifications, metadata and content
  harmonization
• Support organization for documentation and
  classification work
• Managing the metadata systems
• New arcitecture, metadata has a central role

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Near future plans

• Business Operating Support System - BOSS
• Stage 1, Describing standard tools and method for
  the production process October 2008
• Stage 2, Possibility to describe the product's
  production, connection to existing metadata tools
  - June 2009
• Stage 3, SOA connection, workflow support, supply
  production documentation early 2010 (goal)
• When using BOSS required documentation will be
  extracted from the system after finalizing the
  production

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Near future plans

• Tie metadata to the Business Operating Support
  System
• Web presentation with links between metadata on
  micro and macro levels
• Expanded features to the classification database

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Sharing

• Statistics Sweden are more than happy to share
  with other organisations
• MetaPlus
• Variable concepts
• Variables
• Classifications and code lists
• Population and statistical units
• For use in all steps of the production process
• The model is availiable in english
• Crude translation of the application is
  availiable in english
• Production process model