Moving to a Metadata driven world Th The Statistics New Zealand - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Moving to a Metadata driven world

Th St ti ti N Z l d t The Statistics New Zealand story

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“…the U.K. is getting rid of the 200-year-old head count because it's expensive incomplete and out of date before because it s expensive, incomplete and out of date before it's even published… In a country struggling with a $235 billion deficit, the census might be seen as a luxury”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 create Uses to define Uses to define

Questionnaire

(I )

Processing Data mart

IT Specialist IT Specialist IT Specialist define

(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

Questionnaire

(I )

Processing Data mart

Analyst Analyst

Xml Xml

Analyst

(Instrument)

System

Xml Xml

Supports Supports Supports

9

IT Specialist

Vision - Instrument

Vision:

Channels Meta Data XML CAPI Configuration XML

Routing

Rules (DDI) CATI CAWI Data (DDI) Other Data

10

Blaise – The Stats NZ Direction

New generation of tools Blaise NG

• Xml driven ?
• Standards aware ?

11

Questions

12