Towards Linked Open Statistical Data: Dissemination Formats and Major Statistic Data Sets of the AEC Countries
Panuchart Bunyakiati, Pajika Voravittayathorn - · Journal of Communications and Information Sciences · 2013
Official statistics can be disseminated via different media including the Internet, paper publications, CD-ROM, fax, public speeches, and press releases. Dissemination formats such as HTML pages, PDF documents, and Excel sheets are widely deployed in national and international statistics agencies in releasing their data. However, with the recent worldwide movement that calls for opening up government or public data, more governments and institutions are increasingly publishing their data in more open formats such as SDMX, CSV, RDF, and RDFa that allow users to freely use and reuse or even link their data. The examination of dissemination formats of statistics of the AEC countries in this study has shown that data still needs to be disseminated in a more open format in cases of national statistical organizations in almost all AEC states as well as ASEAN.