Re: Digital forms, questionnaires, surveys and opinion polls

Owen Ambur, 

 

I’m reading about StratML and I see prospects for collaboration, in particular after reading about subsections 202(b)(4) and 202(b)(5) and 207(d) of the eGov Act and H.R. 2142, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA), P.L. 111-352.


Web-enhanced desktop applications for opinion polls are an exciting upcoming technology.  Structured data formats can enhance features for users, developers, authors of questionnaires, surveys and polls as well as others interested in utilizing the data.  Some technological topics pertaining to polling include: computational linguistics, paraphrases and entailments, the analysis of sequences of polling questions, the indexing, search and retrieval of polls and polling questions, services which, for polling questions, return similar polls and polling questions or the resultant data of similar previous polls and polling questions, and the routing of questionnaires, surveys and polls to application users, as interesting and relevant to them, for instance utilizing pubsub channels.



 

Kind regards,

 

Adam Sobieski

 


From: Owen Ambur
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎August‎ ‎22‎, ‎2013 ‎11‎:‎14‎ ‎PM
To: 'Adam Sobieski'
Cc: 'Andre Cusson', 'Gannon Dick', 'Joe Carmel', 'Russell Ruggiero', Ranjeeth Thunga, 'Alain Couthures', 'Sara Mazer', romano.romani@softwareag-gs.com, 'Hudson Hollister'

 


Adam, it seems to me there may be at least a couple potentially meaningful connections between the information you have provided below and the StratML standard:

 

1)      Although the publish-subscribe “pattern” is focused on messaging, the methodology is applicable to goals and objectives documented in StratML format.  Those compiling strategic plans in StratML format can post them anywhere on the Web.  Intermediary services can ingest, index, and make their content available for “subscription”.  Publishers can use the stratml:Stakeholder element to name and describe not only the goals and objectives themselves but also the stakeholder groups to whom they are considered to be of interest.  In turn, others can subscribe to goals and objectives whose names (and descriptions) are of interest to them or which are associated with named stakeholder groups of which they are members (or about which they are interested).  Notices could be forwarded to subscribers whenever any of the content of the goal/objective changes.  The most common use case might be when a new target or actual result is posted for an objective, and since start and end dates are associated with each instance of target and actual results, services could anticipate and notify subscribers when updates are due.  (Such services might be most immediately useful to the individuals responsible for providing the updated performance data … if collection and publishing of that data cannot be automated.)

 

2)      One of the primary purposes of the StratML standard is to facilitate input and feedback from stakeholders, by enabling explicit (direct) referencing of discrete elements of each plan/report.  While such input and feedback may not itself be highly structured, there is no reason that it could or should not be solicited via “forms, questionnaires, surveys and/or … polls.”  Indeed, one of the ways intermediaries, including any interested individual, could use the stratml:Relationship elements to provide useful input would be to identify and document relationships among the goals, objectives, and performance indicators in myriad plans of myriad organizations across the Web.  Such relationships might be deemed to be tentative until confirmed by a sufficient number of individuals, recognized authorities, and/or the organizations themselves whose goals/objectives are at issue.  However, the point is that a relatively simple, Web-based form could be provided for usage by anyone who chooses to do so, and their proposed relationships could be posted anywhere on the Web – apart from the referenced plans/reports themselves.  Presumably, crowdsourcing of the establishment of such relationships could vastly improve upon what the organizations themselves might be willing and able to do within the context of their own plans and reports, particularly, for example, if they are competing with each other for tax, grant, contract, or donor funding.

 

Just some thoughts … for whatever they might be worth.  If you see any likely prospects for collaboration along these lines, please let me know.

 

Owen Ambur

Chair, AIIM StratML Committee

Co-Chair Emeritus, xml.gov CoP

Communications/Membership Director, FIRM

Former Project Manager, ET.gov

Invited Expert, W3C eGov IG

 



 



From: Adam Sobieski [mailto:adamsobieski@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:31 PM
To: public-egovernance@w3.org
Subject: Re: Digital forms, questionnaires, surveys and opinion polls

 



Electronic Governance Community Group,


 


Greetings.  For those interested in technology topics with regard to forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls, some include:


 
Mobile computing.
The publish subscribe pattern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern).
Web-enhanced desktop applications, dynamic desktop content.
Notifications to users of new forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls.
Interoperability of desktop applications with other desktop applications; for instance, calendar applications as well as other applications for notes, including pertaining to Web surfing topics and activities.
Metadata models for forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls.
Data formats and ontology can facilitate interoperability between participants in various models of ecosystems for the collection of public opinion.
The indexing, search and retrieval of forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls and dynamically-generated forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls.
In some models, third party service providers can spider forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls with services including providing digitally-signed content for object metadata models, for instance keywords or topics, channels for publish subscribe systems.
Web and desktop user interface topics including widgets and components for forms, questionnaires, surveys and public opinion polls.


 


 


 


Kind regards,


 


Adam Sobieski


 


 


 



From: Adam Sobieski
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎August‎ ‎22‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎33‎ ‎PM
To: public-egovernance@w3.org


 


In addition to the topics of e-voting, broader pertinent topics include: group
decision making, digital forms, questionnaires, their construction, surveys,
related data collection and opinion polls. Some technological topics include the
design of forms, questionnaires, surveys and opinion polls, existing and new
user interface components or widgets, and the collection, assurance,
aggregation, analysis and [...]



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