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Supporting academia (and everyone else) Justin Hayes UK Data Service Census Support 2011 Census Outputs Evaluation: User Feedback Workshop 8 January 2015 Aims • Web interface to meet main user requirements to quickly and easily • Find information of relevance across the whole census(es) • Understand the information to make appropriate use of it • Take and use the information Old system - Casweb • ‘Traditional’ table based approach • Complex to develop • Limited search functionality New ideas • Move away from tables by integrating data into single dataset to enable global operations • Make dataset self-describing using standards to integrate data and metadata • Use API to provide Web based query • Lightweight, dynamically generated interface Challenges • • • • Fragmentation in table datasets Lack of global structure information Hidden and inconsistent structures Complex characteristics and variables Development • Global model of characteristics • Model of 2011 geographies • Web query via Application Programming Interface (API) • Managed access to live database • Private and public New system - InFuse • infuse.mimas.ac.uk The 2011 Outputs • Open Government Licence • Improved consistency in data descriptions • Metadata supplied with bulk output data • Improved UK harmonisation • WDA and the ONS API • Focus on tables for output consultation and specification • Post-processing required to fit global models Recommendations • UK’s success relies on best use of best information • Holistic view of UK information requirements • Census as one component • Develop global descriptive models and tools • Characteristics and geographies • Framework for integration of old and new information • Tables as an end product • Provide and manage access via APIs • Automated external global operation essential • Data management and update by producers • User information and relationships A 2021 Vision • Dynamic generation of aggregate data from underlying unit data using automated SDC via API