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SASPAC 2011 and beyond - BURISA Conference 13.05.11
1. 2011 and Beyond Alan Lewis SASPAC Project Officer Intelligence Unit Greater London Authority BURISA – Census 2011 and Beyond: Essential User Guide 13th May 2011
2. Overview What is SASPAC? Who uses it and why? What SASPAC users want in 2011 SASPAC’s 2011 preparations 2011 and beyond?
3. What is SASPAC? Software application to interrogate and access Census data Owned by the Local Government Association Managed/developed on behalf of LGA and users by the Greater London Authority (GLA) “Not for Profit” - owned and managed by the Public Sector
52. Who uses it and why? Peak membership following 2001 was almost 400 organisations Users include: local, central and regional government, health sector, academia, Census Offices, private sector Helpdesk provides SASPAC and Census support/advice Access to wide range of Census outputs Value for money: organisation-wide licence
73. What SASPAC users want in 2011? Our user survey said… access to wide range of data (not just Census) new and improved interface data searching, browsing and variable/table outputs variety of export formats (.xls, .html, .xml, .del, + others)
74. What SASPAC users want in 2011? Our user survey said… command line syntax (macro language) custom tools (e.g. geography, variables, local data) improved metadata integration simplified data storage continued helpdesk support/advice
75. data distribution world has changed since 2003! drive to make more data open and accessible lots more data becoming available online: 2011 Preparations
76. Census Offices will: “provide a query management interface (an Application Programming Interface or API) which external partners can use to access the various forms of ONS data in a backend data store” (2011 Census Output Strategy, December 2009) Allowing SASPAC to: access Census data as soon as it’s published improve error tracking/management improve metadata integration more than just Census data 2011 Preparations
77. 2011 Preparations SASPAC is a Partner working with ONS, NOMIS and Manchester University to help develop the 2011 Census API began in early 2010 and an ‘alpha’ version made available to Partners in December (using 2001 test data) SASPAC developed a demo application that combined the Census and NeSS API and published this using IA and OS API.
78. 2011 Preparations SASPAC’s demonstration app: SASPAC Outputs SASPAC Web Services Wizard Census Data Source Excel Census API Web Publishing NeSS API Mapping
79. 2011 Preparations SASPAC’s demonstration app: SASPAC Outputs SASPAC Web Services Wizard Census Data Source Excel Census API Web Publishing NeSS API Mapping
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81. began in early 2010 and an ‘alpha’ version made available to Partners in December (using 2001 test data)
82. SASPAC produced a development application that combined the Census and NeSS API and published this using IA and OS API.
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84. 2011 and Beyond SASPAC 2011: New interface ‘Lite’ and ‘Pro’ version On/offline access Continued helpdesk support/training
85. 2011 and Beyond SASPAC 2011: More data (APIs, bulk and user) SASPAC API and URI feeds Online user forum/community Retain and strengthen USPs
86. 2011 and Beyond Beyond 2011…? SASPAC Outputs SASPAC Web Services Wizard Census Data Sources
87. Thank you and questions? Contact: 020 7983 4348 info@saspac.org www.saspac.org
