Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Verena Hirsch, FSO Switzerland 30.06.2010 Using multimedia and

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHAFederal Statistical Office FSO

www.fso150years.ch

Verena Hirsch, FSO Switzerland

30.06.2010

Using multimedia and the web to look back on 150 years of statistics in Switzerland

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A facelift for publications

The front-page design of FSO publications will undergo a facelift for the anniversary year: just as statistics transform "reality" into numbers, pixels can transform front pages.



New front-pages of publications



•What happened with the FSO since the creation of the office? Which highlights can we isolate in that long time? How can we define highlights?•Where do we find documents? What has been left from this long history?•How can we present it to the great public without big money? Will it be interesting for not specialized people?•Which media are we going to use? In the timeline where had to introduce texts, photographs, but also films and sound.•How to initiate interest for the history of FSO? In this question we are still working on…

The basic questions



ChartsThe history of our office would become more and more interesting for some of us. By this time we were thinking about how to present this material.



Creating a timeline•The idea of a timeline is to present several types of documents in a chronological order. We had texts, publications, photographs, films from different sources : principally•National Archives, several libraries •Our one archives of the statistic office•Archives of newspapers: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Gazette de Lausanne, le Temps.•We called it the Chronostat and you find it on the web. There you find the minutes of the parliament about the FSO, the law texts, the portraits of the 13 directors, films about the different census since 1930, and so on.



All directors of FSO



ChronoStat



The first director, details



Official publication



Detail of a newspaper



Census 1950: the oldest men



with his family studying the questions



This men is father of 20 children!



The quiz





The score and the next play



2’668’643 visitors in 2009



Pages visited: more than 1’000’000 each month



The special pages…



The solution for more visitors?

www.fso150years.ch

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Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Statistical Office FSO Verena Hirsch, FSO Switzerland 30.06.2010 Using multimedia and