Paris, France, 4th December 2007, OECD announces the
impending
launch of a new beta service for accessing OECD Statistics
called
OECD.Stat. Following five years of behind-the-scenes work to
combine OECD's databases into a single system, OECD.Stat
will
enable users to search for and extract data from across
OECD's
many databases for the first time.
OECD is embarking on a programme of rolling releases that
will
see three new dissemination services with a multitude of new
features. OECD.Stat is the first and will be launched as a
beta
version, as part of SourceOECD, at Online Information in
bond
on the 4th December 2007
Please see www.sourceoecd.org/database/oecdstat for
details.
OECD.Stat offers three key features:
* Discovery: users can search for complex statistical data
across
OECD databases with one click access to the datasets
themselves
from the search results.
* Mix and Merge: for the first time, users can extract data
from
across all 50 databases in one enquiry. New functions enable
users to gather and assemble data from various datasets in
unique
and customizable tables.
* Metadata: Improved metadata down to the level of each
datapoint
means that users can understand the origins of each number
and
the overall context, aiding comprehension.
Enrico Giovannini, OECD's Chief Statistician said: "The
gathering
of reliable and intelligent information is at the core of
good
politics, and societies are changing quickly, so statistics
must
continuously evolve to reflect the world in which we live.
The
challenge for the statistical tools that we are delivering
today,
and will deliver tomorrow, is not onle to make statistics
easier
to find and understand, but also to enable us to build a
foundation to present information that is yet to
come."
"The launch of OECD.Stat in SourceOECD, OECD's
iLibrary, is the
first step in an extensive project to enhance OECD's
publishing
services for users," said Toby Green, Head of OECD
Publishing.
"Over the coming twelve months we'll be launching a
number of
major improvements to our online services covering both our
statistical and analytical publications, OECD.Stat is just
the
start."
Contact: Toby Green, Head of Publishing
toby.green oecd.org
About OECD
OECD (www.oecd.org) brings together the governments of
countries
committed to democracy and the market economy from around
the
world to support sustainable economic growth, raise living
standards, maintain financial stability and assist other
countries' economic development.
OECD Publishing (www.oecd.org/publishing) is one of the
world's
largest publishers in the fields of economics and public
policy.
OECD Publishing disseminates OECD's intellectual output,
both
analytical and statistical.
Information about publications is available through the OECD
Online Bookshop and through SourceOECD, its groundbreaking
online
library of statistical databases, books and periodicals.
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