During the past two months Susan Noble and Celia Russell from the UK Data Service international data team based at Jisc have taken part in a couple of important international events:
Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) Annual Workshop, Paris, 11th – 15th April 2016
Set up by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the SIS-CC is a group of international institutions (such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the International belarus rcs data Labour Organisation and UNESCO) working together to share experiences, expertise and to enable cost effective innovation in large-scale data dissemination. We became a SIS-CC member organization in 2012 and since then have been working collaboratively with the SIS-CC to develop UKDS.Stat– our platform for disseminating international macro data.
Each spring, the SIS-CC holds an annual workshop and the theme of this year’s event was The Agile Data Factory: Create and Combine Data Experiences. This is an invaluable opportunity for staff from all the member organizations to meet up face to face to further develop collaborative working relationships and to shape the future direction of the group. It’s worth noting that we’re the only member of the SIS-CC from the academic sector, and the only member that pulls together data from different publishers such as the OECD, IMF and International Energy Agency, so we’re in a unique position to help influence the development of this widely used platform to ensure that current and future research and teaching needs are taken into consideration. For example, at the latest workshop, we showcased our integration of Google Scholar citations into the UKDS.Stat platform and highlighted the importance of this kind of feature for our user community.