Revise preface for second edition handbook

Updated the preface for the second edition of the handbook, including details about the Centres of Excellence initiative and the STACE project.

Author: ppdewolf

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 # Preface to the second edition {.unnumbered}
 
-In 2006 Eurostat took the initiative of setting up Centres of Excellence. The idea behind this scheme is to combine the strengths of the leading National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) in Europe on a certain topic. Often in several NSIs small isolated groups are working on specific topics. Other NSIs even lack the resources to pay enough attention to certain methodological issues. This situation led to the Eurostat initiative on Centres of Excellence. A Centre of Excellence could bring together the knowledge on a certain topic at a higher level by supporting the research in the leading countries and to spread this work to the other NSIs. Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) was selected as a pilot topic. One of the reasons for selecting SDC was a longer tradition in the field of SDC with respect to European cooperation, like the EU framework projects SDC ([https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/20462](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/20462)) and CASC ([https://research.cbs.nl/casc/CASCIndex.htm](https://research.cbs.nl/casc/CASCIndex.htm)).
+In 2006 Eurostat took the initiative of setting up Centres of Excellence. The idea behind this scheme is to combine the strengths of the leading National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) in Europe on a certain topic. Often in several NSIs small isolated groups are working on specific topics. Other NSIs even lack the resources to pay enough attention to certain methodological issues. This situation led to the Eurostat initiative on Centres of Excellence. A Centre of Excellence could bring together the knowledge on a certain topic at a higher level by supporting the research in the leading countries and to spread this work to the other NSIs. Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) was selected as a pilot topic. One of the reasons for selecting SDC was a longer tradition in the field of SDC with respect to European cooperation, like the EU framework projects SDC ([https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/20462](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/20462)) and CASC ([https://research.cbs.nl/casc/CASCIndex.htm](https://research.cbs.nl/casc/CASCindex.htm)).
 
 One of the tasks of a Centre of Excellence on SDC launched in 2005 (grant agreement No 25200.2005.001-2005.619) was to write a handbook on Statistical Disclosure Control. The writing of the handbook was coordinated by Anco Hundepool, who also wrote parts of the chapter on the software tools ([Sections @sec-software], [-@sec-tau-argus-suppression] and [-@sec-methodology-secondary-suppression-tau-argus]). Jane Longhurst and Luisa Franconi wrote the introduction chapter ([Chapter 1](01-Introduction.html)), while Eric Schulte Nordholt wrote the regulation chapter ([Chapter 2](02-regulations.html)). Josep Domingo-Ferrer was responsible for the microdata chapter ([Chapter 3](03-microdata.html)) with contributions by Anco Hundepool, Luisa Franconi, Jane Longhurst and Peter-Paul de Wolf. Sarah Giessing was responsible for the magnitude chapter ([Chapter 4](04-magnitude-tabular-data.html)) and Jane Longhurst for the frequency chapter ([Chapter 5](05-frequency-tables.html)). The remote access chapter ([Chapter 6](06-remote-access-issues.html)) was written by Anco Hundepool and Jane Longhurst. But various other Centre of Excellence partners contributed smaller parts. Glòria Pujol Crespo and Caroline Tudor did valuable proofreading. Also the work of other partners, who did the cumbersome task of proofreading and helping with valuable comments, is gratefully acknowledged.