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The PC-Axis family A consortium for output databases

The PC-Axis family A consortium for output databases. Presented by: Ulrika Arver, Statistics Sweden. What is PC-Axis…. Software platform for coherent, efficient and user friendly dissemination of statistics. Metadata rich Windows, Internet and SQL extension Dynamic multi dimensional tables

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The PC-Axis family A consortium for output databases

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  1. The PC-Axis familyA consortium for output databases Presented by: Ulrika Arver, Statistics Sweden

  2. What is PC-Axis… • Software platform for coherent, efficient and user friendly dissemination of statistics. • Metadata rich • Windows, Internet and SQL extension • Dynamic multi dimensional tables • Easy conversion to several file formats • Includes whole spectrum of dissemination products

  3. PC-Axis main module PX-Web PC-Axis SQL PX-Batch PX-Publ PX-Make PX-Edit PX-iGraph PX-Map PX-iMap The software in the PC-Axis family

  4. The PC-Axis file format • Plain ASCII • Developed in harmony with the data model in the Meta Database • Very metadata rich • Keywords in English • Extension px

  5. Creating px-files • PX-Edit • PX-Make • Super cross • TPL

  6. Main module cont.

  7. PX-Web • Server based database tool to disseminate statistics as dynamic tables on the Internet • Requires a Microsoft Internet Information Server • Handles multiple language • Options to customize

  8. PX-Map & PX-iMap → PX-Map2

  9. The story of PC-Axis • Thesis on multidimensional matrices by Dr. Bo Sundgren (70´s) • Axis (80´s) • PC-Axis (90´s) • Swedish Population Census (1990) • Relational output database (1997) • PX-Web (1999) • Ongoing development

  10. The consortium • Sweden managing the consortium • Nordic core - Sweden, Denmark and Norway • Develop the common Meta data model • International reference group • Swedish user group • Internal use group at Statistics Sweden • Internal group SSD • Steering committee for the Data Base project at Statistics Sweden

  11. Countries and organizations using PC-Axis Europe: Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Greenland, Republic of Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden Asia: Taiwan, The Philippines, Kuwait Africa: Algeria, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania South America: Bolivia and Brazil Organizations: UN/ECE, East African Community, FAO (Kyrgyzstan, Ghana, Kenya)

  12. 3 good reasons to choose PC-Axis • Fast and easy • Cost efficient • Constant improvement and used by all the developers

  13. More information www.pc-axis.scb.se Example

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