PC-Axis and Gapminder?

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Alf Fyhrlund

See http://www.pc-axis.scb.se
PC-Axis and PX-Web are software used in several countries for dissemination of official statistics. PC-Axis is a windows browser and PX-Web is for the Web and both are based on the PC-Axis file format. The PC-Axis file format is very meta data rich and should be a nice way to forward statistics into the Gapminder/Google/Trendalyzer. [...]

Filed under: 032 Metadata, 09 Stat.Office / Organization, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UNECE, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

Discovery or descriptive metadata

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Armin Grossenbacher

In Sigma 1/2006 the article of Annegrete Wulff about user orientation of Statistics Denmark deals with a question worth to be discussed in detail. She says: “We have realised that a good search facility is crucial as many people are not confident with the way a statistical office structures information. To many users, this means [...]

Filed under: 030 User orientation, 032 Metadata, Eurostat, Norway, Switzerland, UNECE | 4 Comments »