the self-maintaining homepage
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The self-maintaining homepage?
IMAODBC 2012Prague 8-12 October
Annegrete WulffStatistics [email protected]
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The task
• To ensure Statistics Denmark has a safe, stable and modern website which allows for continuous development, interactivity and flexible design elements
• Agreed by the Directors December 2010
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Single source principle
• To ensure coherence in dissemination:StatBank is the source for all official data• Output:
– StatBank tables– Main tables on dst.dk (over view)– Year book and other publications– Applications showing data– International organiations
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Cleaned microdatastatistical registers
aggregation replication
viewssavedqueries
Sumdatabaseinternal
Web siteStatBank.dk
public
Web sitedst.dk
Microdata access for researchers
Publica-tions
Charged statistics/ analyses pdf
HTML
PublicInternal
International organisations
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The Plan
Ultimo 2012 to have a new website when it comes to • structure • design• navigation The underlying platform, Sitecore 6, and all applications are to be developed in .Net
CMS: 7 years old- ”burning platform”
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The Budget
• 1 web master• 2 web editors• 2 programmers/developers• (They were working on the old site anyway and still include their usual
maintenance tasks)
• + 0.6 man year in 2011• + 0.4 man year in 2012• 7,000 Euro for consultancy
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Free or not free? That’s not the question
• How many data can I get for 250 DKK?
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Search words during June 2012 1) 991………. names 2) 468………. GDP 3) 373 ……….net price index 4) 372 ……….unemployment 5) 363 ……….crime 6) 299 ……….people 7) 285 ……….inflation 8) 256 ……….facebook 9) 249 ……….salary10) 245 ……...e-commerce11) 243 ………alcohol12) 208 ………Intrastat13) 178 ………travelling14) 170 ………training15) 160 ………population
Focus on structure
From dst.dk to statbank.dk for more details
www.statbank.dk
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http://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/Konjunkturindikatorer.aspx
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Changed plan
• April 2011: Bringing forward the release time to 9:00 (not 9:30)
• May 2011: We need a new structure of subject areas to be included
• Bringing forward the launching date. We want to launch 30 December 2011
From
• 17 topics• Organisation orientation• Single/Multiple sources• 120 local editors• ”Do as you can”
To
• 11 topics• User orientation• Single source• 30 local etitors• ” Follow the rules”
Why strive for the self maintaining web?
• Effeciency/ressources• Coherence• Consistency• Re-use• 1:1:1:1 (Statbank:Homepage:Publications:
Documentation)• Search• Linking
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Got what we wanted?
We wanted a• secure• stable• modern website which allows for• continuous development• interactivity• flexible design elements
• Secure: – tested for sql injections– stress tested
• Stable:– updated CMS– performance tuned– .Net modules allow for add ins
• Modern– structure– usability tests (navigation)– interactive maps and graphs, web TV– design– English:Danish 1:1 (almost) – re-use– coherence and consistency– effeciency
Continous work in 2012-
• Search – as you type – more key words/synonyms– include StatBank metadata
• Graphs– demo
• Calculations in StatBank• HTML publications (pilot)• Coherent metadata systems
(documentation)