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Pordata 〔(Pordata - Base de Dados de Portugal Contemporâneo )〕 is the Contemporary Portugal Database equipped with official and certified statistics about Portugal and Europe. The information is divided in several themes like population, education, health, between others. This database is available for everybody, free of charge, and complete with exempt and accurate information. All of its information is provided by official entities, such as the Portuguese National Institute of Statistics and Eurostat. The number of sources being used so far goes up to a total of 60. All of the available data is presented in a yearly fashion, and whenever possible dating back to 1960. Pordata was organized by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation,〔(FFMS - Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos )〕 created in 2009 by Alexandre Soares dos Santos and his family. FFMS, is presided by Prof. António Barreto and set its main objective in promoting study, knowledge, information and public debate. When released to the public on February 23, 2010 under the direction of Prof. Maria João Valente Rosa, Pordata included only contents about Portugal, nationally. On November 3, the Foundation, launches an extension of its database to the new Pordata Europe. It now includes not only data about Portugal, but also about the European Union, Schengen Area, United States of America and Japan. ==About Pordata== Created by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (FFMS) on February 23, 2010, Contemporary Portugal Database Pordata is a public service, free of charge of unlimited use. Pordata allows the user a fast access to the numbers of the Portuguese reality, spread out across different themes as diverse as population, justice, education, health, environment, among several others. All presented in a chronologic evolution starting, whenever possible in 1960. About 40 official sources in Pordata Portugal, and more than 20 in Pordata Europe are responsible for the rigorous and exempt treatment of the published numbers. With more than 70.000 series available, Pordata allows the analysis of different themes in the same search enviorement. Here, the user is able to use a vast set of both visualization tools (such as graphs and tables) and editing ones (%, variations, etc.). Directed by Professor Maria João Valente Rosa, the project Pordata is the result of a sequence of studies coordinated and put to motion by António Barreto in the Social Sciences Institute of Lisbon University dating back to the late 90s. FFMS believes that side by side with the rapid development of information and communication technologies, the general interest in statistics as suffered a significant growth in the last few years, putting it in a vital position inside the process of analyzing and knowing nowadays societies. According to Maria João Valente Rosa, Pordata “''is trying to answer the needs of credible information, so many times disperse and with complex access, to a public as wider as possible''”. Furthermore: ''“This is a project destined to everybody, a real public service, thought out to a vast number of users that share in the interest of a deeper knowledge about Portugal, with trust, rigor and easy access.''”.〔(Pordata apresentação - Maria João Valente Rosa )〕 After its original release Pordata had a second development stage, with the new European database. New themes and different approaches are scheduled to complete the already existing ones, such as the database expansion to the Portuguese regions and municipalities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pordata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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