International Collaboration on Industrialization of Editing: Background (WP35)

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International Collaboration on Industrialization
of EditingBackground (WP35)

• Li-Chun Zhang
• Statistics Norway

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Coping with multiple challenges(ABS initiative,
Paris 2010)

• Budget constraints
• Increasing user demand
• Scope and content of statistical outputs
• Quality awareness
• Changing information society
• Information-related technologies
• Data/metadata infrastructure

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Modernization obstacles

• Production efficiency
• Ratio btw. Quality and Cost
• Flexibility for reconfiguration
• Modernization programs From stovepipe solutions
  to corporate-wise standardized general systems
• Obstacles
• Continuous production vs. development/migration
• Lack of internationally recognized standards
• Generic statistical business process model
  (GSBPM)
• Generic statistical information model (GSIM)
  to-be

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Industrialization A vision

• Each NSI is a factory of statistical information
• Products fit-for-use excellence
• Production means capable as well as flexible
• Production process efficient given
  resource-at-disposal
• Together, an industry of social-economic
  statistical information with its own industrial
  standards
• Foundation for cost-efficient development and
  exchange of production means potential market of
  commercial interest
• Consolidation of our statistical outputs in
  information society, making them readily
  accessible, interpretable comparable

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Standardization as key approachGetting rid of
all unnecessary variations

• Production processes GSBPM
• Production/information standards GSIM to-be
• Methodology
• Standardization ? Single solution
• Recommended/common solution point-of-departure
• Deviation allowed, if justified impetus for
  auditing
• Over time, standardization generates a method
  library
• IT
• General statistical systems
• Architectural design
• Engineering principles

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Industrialization of Editing Some issues to be
dealt with

• Overall objective, principles and guidelines
  (e.g. the new paradigm of editing)
• Conceptual reference framework with regard to
  GSBPM
• Conceptual reference framework with regard to
  GSIM to-be
• Design of generic functionality
• Minimum set of standard methods
• IT tools and platforms