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Part I Creating Comprehensive Data Worlds Using Standardisation |
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1 Where We Stand, Where We Want to Be, and How to Get There |
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3 | (8) |
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1.1 Exploding Data Worlds |
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1.2 Gated Communities: The Data Silos |
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4 | (1) |
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1.3 Data Linkage Is the Key |
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5 | (2) |
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1.4 Data Linkage Succeeds with an Order System |
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7 | (1) |
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1.5 The Order System Named SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) |
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8 | (3) |
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2 What Does Reality Look Like? |
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2.1 Yawning Data Gaps Despite "Collectomania" |
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11 | (1) |
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2.2 The Data Universe Lacks Order |
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12 | (1) |
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2.3 Using Information Technology Not Possible Without Content-Related Expertise |
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13 | (2) |
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14 | (1) |
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3 What Can We Expect From Big Data? |
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15 | (8) |
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16 | (1) |
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3.2 A Technical Approach to Big Data |
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16 | (2) |
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3.3 What Big Data Is Not Able to Offer |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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3.5 SDMX and Big Data: Complementary, Not Contradictory |
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21 | (2) |
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22 | (1) |
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4 Why Is Data Integration So Hard? |
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23 | (12) |
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4.1 What Is Data Integration? |
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24 | (2) |
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4.2 Innovation Speed of IT |
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26 | (1) |
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4.3 Competition of IT Manufacturers, Products and Ideas |
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27 | (1) |
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4.4 IT Projects Instead of Business Projects |
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28 | (1) |
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4.5 Individualistic Mentality |
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29 | (1) |
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4.6 Silo Thinking Rather Than Interdisciplinary Thinking |
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30 | (1) |
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4.7 Privacy and Data Protection |
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30 | (1) |
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4.8 Lack of Direct Incentives for Data Providers |
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31 | (1) |
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4.9 Insufficient IT Standards for Data |
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32 | (3) |
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33 | (2) |
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5 Basic Thoughts About Standardisation |
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35 | (6) |
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5.1 Standards Do Not Fall from the Sky |
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35 | (1) |
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5.2 A Standard Is Never the Local Optimum, but Probably the Global Optimum |
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36 | (1) |
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5.3 Standards Are Accepted When They Are Usable |
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36 | (1) |
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5.4 Standards Promote Decentralised Work |
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37 | (1) |
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5.5 Standards for the Realisation of New Approaches---Current Example: Blockchain |
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38 | (3) |
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6 Standardisation and Research |
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41 | (6) |
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6.1 Limited Interest in Standardisation |
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41 | (1) |
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6.2 Influence of Data Availability on Research |
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42 | (1) |
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6.3 Role of Research Data Centres |
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42 | (5) |
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45 | (2) |
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7 Introducing Standards Successfully |
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47 | (6) |
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7.1 The Correct Sequence: Start With the Content |
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48 | (1) |
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7.2 Creating Structure and Order |
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48 | (1) |
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7.3 Use Classification Systems and Global Identifiers |
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49 | (1) |
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7.4 Use Technology Wisely |
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50 | (1) |
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7.5 Choose Small Steps for a Step-by-Step Approach |
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50 | (1) |
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7.6 Treat Stakeholders Right |
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51 | (2) |
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8 Statistics Driving Successful Data Integration |
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53 | (6) |
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8.1 The Cross-Domain Nature of Statistics |
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53 | (1) |
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8.2 Statistical Concepts for the Construction of a Data World |
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54 | (2) |
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8.3 Data Exchange and Data Sharing in Statistics |
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56 | (3) |
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57 | (2) |
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9 Contribution of the Statistics Standard SDMX |
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59 | (10) |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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9.3 How to Design an SDMX Structure: A Simple Example |
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61 | (3) |
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9.4 Data-Driven Systems in Statistical Data Exchange Thanks to SDMX |
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64 | (1) |
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9.5 Professional Example of Practical Relevance |
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64 | (5) |
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67 | (2) |
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10 Conclusion and Outlook |
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69 | (4) |
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70 | (3) |
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Part II The Statistics Standard SDMX |
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11.1 The Idea, Its Origin and Its Propagation |
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73 | (2) |
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11.2 The Way to the Global Standard: The SDMX Initiative |
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75 | (4) |
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11.3 Further Development by the Bodies of the SDMX Initiative |
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79 | (2) |
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11.4 The Potential in the Use of SDMX as an Information Model |
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81 | (1) |
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11.5 The Future: Further Possibilities of Use and Stronger Industrialisation |
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82 | (3) |
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83 | (2) |
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12 The Main Elements of SDMX |
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12.1 Elementary Building Blocks |
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86 | (1) |
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12.2 Defining a Data Structure Definition |
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87 | (2) |
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12.3 Creating a Data Set According to a Data Structure Definition |
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89 | (2) |
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12.4 Data Sets Are Exchanged Between Parties |
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91 | (3) |
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12.5 The Greater Perspective: Management of Information, Topic Areas, Stakeholders and Processes |
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94 | (2) |
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12.6 The SDMX-Based Data Warehouse |
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96 | (1) |
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12.7 Applicability of SDMX for Micro Data |
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97 | (1) |
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12.8 SDMX and Neighbouring Standards |
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98 | (5) |
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101 | (2) |
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103 | (4) |
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105 | (2) |
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14 SDMX as a Key Success Factor for Data Integration |
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107 | (4) |
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109 | (2) |
About the Authors |
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Glossary |
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113 | (2) |
Index |
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