Moving to a Metadata driven world Th The Statistics New Zealand story St ti ti N Z l d t November 2009
About Me Chris Seymour • From – New Zealand • Role: Role: – Senior Architect » System Design » Concept investigation / prototyping » Forward focused 2
Discussion Items Change Metadata Vision Direction 3
Economic Crisis Government intervention Rescue packages Budget reductions Reduced programmes “…the U.K. is getting rid of the 200-year-old head count because it's expensive incomplete and out of date before because it s expensive, incomplete and out of date before it's even published… In a country struggling with a $235 billion deficit, the census might be seen as a luxury” 4
Changing the ‘status quo’ g g q Within Statistics New Zealand, collection activities are: • Expensive • Duplicate Information Need to be ‘smarter’! 5
Current - Collection Current: Survey Flowchart Creates Survey Designer Uses to Uses to Uses to create define define define IT Specialist IT Specialist IT Specialist Questionnaire Processing Data mart (I (Instrument) ) System 6
Meta Data Definition: “... loosely defined as data about data” Success to date: • Concept Library • Configuration • Rule Engines 7
Bringing Systems Together g g y g Standards • Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Collaboration New cost model • Vendors • Open source 8
Vision – Collection Vision: Survey Flowchart Creates Survey Designer Xml Xml Xml Analyst Analyst Analyst Questionnaire Processing Data mart Xml Xml Xml Xml (I (Instrument) ) System Supports Supports Supports 9 IT Specialist
Vision - Instrument Vision: Configuration Channels CAPI XML XML Meta Data CATI (DDI) (DDI) Routing CAWI Rules Data Data Other 10
Blaise – The Stats NZ Direction New generation of tools Blaise NG • Xml driven ? • Standards aware ? 11
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