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Moving into the 21st Century: The IMF’s Transition to the to Web Disseminate Its Statistical Databases Work Session on Statistical Dissemination and Communication Conference of European Statisticians Washington, D.C. September 12-14, 2006 The Current Situation Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW “Traditional” products in print & CD-ROM Balance of Payments Statistics Direction of Trade Statistics Government Finance Statistics International Financial Statistics Online products, different formats IFS (à la the CD-ROM) International Reserves (static tables) Coordinated Portfolio Investment Statistics (static tables) First Steps... Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW Spring 2005: Studies Commissioned ♦ Qualitative Usership Research of traditional products (by Research Perspectives) ♦ Review of Best Practices for Web Dissemination of Data (by Sabatier Consulting) Fall 2005: studies completed and results presented to IMF staff Usership Research Indicated: ♦ Highly user unfriendly ♦ Difficult to search and navigate ♦ Lack of definitions and information on changes ♦ Print publications required to understand data Next Steps... Home Current Situation First Steps Next Steps Vision for EDW Through Summer 2006: ♦ Statistics Department retreat to consider strategies ♦ Introduction of [email protected] to respond to content questions ♦ Adoption of Remedy to assign and track queries ♦ Creation of a library of responses to ensure consistency of message and reduce resource requirements ♦ Preparation of a design for an interface based upon best practices of many statistical sites ♦ Selection of tools Next Steps... Home Tasks That Remain: Current Situation First Steps ♦ Designing a user-friendly web site Next Steps ♦ Determining the extent of metadata Vision for EDW ♦ Ensuring effective user support ♦ Selecting a delivery technology ♦ Developing marketing and pricing strategies A Vision for the Economic Data Warehouse and Future Dissemination EXISTING DATA & METADATA National Sources ICS DATA WAREHOUSE Plus additional metadata DATA SEARCH & ELABORATION Rationalized Databases, Gaps Identified National Sources ICS Statistics IFS Data (disseminate as appropriate) Area Depts 10+ countries Web Access to Data Warehouse IMF.ORG Statistics Portal Validated Data Metadata Research WEO External Data OECDMEI INTLINE Searchable by: • • • • Topic Country Source Reports Metadata Publications CD ROM
