Web Survey Bibliography
In current survey practice, the creation of a data collection instrument involves two distinct steps. The first is survey design, in which a researcher defines the questions and flow of a survey. The second is survey implementation, in which a researcher or programmer turns the design into an electronic or paper survey instrument.
This paper presents an alternative approach to survey development. Metadata-driven survey design means that the actions taken to define a survey are the same actions that create the survey instrument. Using a metadata-driven approach to survey design provides several benefits, including:
• Less redundant work
• Better, easier data documentation
• Reusability of key survey components
• Increased data harmonization potential
• Greater research integrity
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Web survey bibliography - IASSIST Quarterly (5)
- Archiving and Re-using Qualitative and Qualitative Longitudinal Data in Slovenia; 2010; Stebe, J., Hudales, J., Kragelj, B.
- Establishing a Qualitative Data Archive in Austria; 2010; Smioski, A.
- Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of Archiving Qualitative Data; 2010; Kuula, A.
- Questasy: Online Survey Data Dissemination Using DDI 3; 2009; de Bruijne, M., Amin, A.
- Swedish National Data Service's Strategy for Sharing and Mediating Data; 2008; Carlhed, C., Alfredsson, I.