ABS SDMX/ABS.stat experience - exemplar AURIN

SDMX/ABS.stat Roles in
Realising the ABS
Dissemination Vision
Expert Group on SDMX
Seoul, October 2014
Stuart Girvan
Outline
• ABS disseminate strategy
• AURIN - An example of implementing the
strategy
• Challenges and issues
• A couple of other examples
A simple view of our Interest Groups
Give me the detailed data, so that I can
analyse, re-use and combine it with other
data, to help me make decisions.
Tell me an interesting story,
so I learn something new.
What’s the number! so I
can quickly tell others
about it.
Is there a good
summary? I want to learn
more about a subject or
geographic area.
Flexible Dissemination Model
Presentation Layer
Abs.gov.a
u WCMS
3rd party
portals
Mobile
Apps
Dynamic
Apps
Other
ODATA
Other
Delivery Layer
SDMX API
ITT API
JSON
Content Layer
microdata
Aggregate
data
metadata
geospatial
About AURIN
•
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network
•
AURIN is a national collaboration delivering eresearch infrastructure to empower better decisions
for Australia’s urban settlements and their future
development
•
The AURIN Workbench and its flagship application,
the AURIN Portal, is delivering access to diverse data
from multiple sources, and is facilitating data
integration and data interrogation using open source
e-research tools
AURIN - Portal
AURIN vs ABS.stat
AURIN - Portal
What are the issues?
• Translating data cubes into flat data
structures (most GIS systems still work
off a flat table paradigm where spatial
coordinates are the key feature)
• Lesson: Need to work with 3rd parties to
be smart about the architecture
What are the issues?
• Dealing with the geography vs dealing
with the spatial
Identification of region
dimension
Region
• Region concept will be
compulsory in all ABS
disseminated datasets
• An hierarchical Australia
region codelist – will have
400,000+ members for the
main ASGS codelist
• How to identify different levels
in a hierarchical dataset ( eg
all SA2s)
Region cont
SDMX is expected to query this
codelist
• Think about
•“Select where” or “Select all”
options.
•Hierarchical code list?
•Use of wildcards – where
“region ID” starts with “1”
Other uses of
SDMX/ABS.stat
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