Open AccessXForms generation: a real world example
Author(s) -
Éric Sigaud,
Romain Tailhurat,
Franck Cotton,
Éric van der Vlist
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
balisage series on markup technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 1947-2609
DOI - 10.4242/balisagevol11.cotton01
Subject(s) - metadata , computer science , rationalization (economics) , pathfinder , world wide web , software , data collection , process (computing) , data science , software engineering , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology , programming language , operating system
INSEE runs a lot of surveys and needs to make them available on different media: paper questionnaires, specialized survey software or web forms. As part of an overall effort of rationalization of its information system, INSEE recently initiated the construction of a central statistical metadata repository and of a generic platform for survey data collection. We describe in this paper a pathfinder operation that draws from these two important projects and aims at automating the generation of web questionnaires from metadata models. We explain the business justification of this approach and the technological choices made, especially the utilization of XForms. The generation process is described in detail and the lessons learned from this operation are depicted.