Database publishing on the Internet

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Podehl, Martin^{; 1}

Affiliations: Statistics Canada, Dissemination Division, RH Coats Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OT6

Note: [1] Paper presented at the Meeting on the Management of Statistical Information Technology, Geneva, 15–17 February 1999.

Abstract: Dissemination of official statistics via the Internet has entered a new stage. Creating individual HTML pages or PDF documents is expensive and requires manual quality control which is difficult to sustain on a continuing basis. The next development is to create HTML pages on the fly from information organized and maintained in databases of text and numbers. This paper will review the current approaches of database publishing in general and the practical experiences in Statistics Canada so far with textual information bases and numeric databases interfaced to its web site. The importance of a data warehouse in this regard will be outlined.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1999-162-304

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 16, no. 2-3, pp. 145-153, 1999