The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced the launch of a new beta service for accessing OECD Statistics. Called OECD.Stat, the service will enable users to search for and extract data from across the organisation's databases for the first time. The launch follows five years of behind-the-scenes work to combine its databases into a single system.
OECD is embarking on a programme of rolling releases that will see three new dissemination services with a multitude of new features. OECD.Stat, the first, was launched as a beta version, as part of SourceOECD, at the recently concluded Online Information in London.
With OECD.Stat users can search for complex statistical data across OECD databases with one click access to the datasets themselves from the search results. For the first time, users will be able to extract data from across all 50 databases in one enquiry. New functions will enable them to gather and assemble data from various datasets in customisable tables. In addition, improved metadata down to the level of each datapoint means that users can understand the origins of each number and the overall context, aiding comprehension.
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