Standards only come about through the patient and painstaking collaboration of individuals and companies who share a vision to bring about beneficial change by harmonising activities or processes. These can often be companies and individuals who are, at other times, competitors. ASC, with its own long history of facilitating collaboration through the sharing of knowledge and best practices, is an enthusiastic supporter of these co-operative endeavours within the industry to achieve documented, recognised standards.
Each of the standards on this page are welcomed by ASC as examples of open, collaborative initiatives that promote greater efficiency, improve quality and stimulate innovation.
ASC endorses TSAPI as an industry standard for survey data transfer and interoperability between different survey and data platforms. ASC’s endorsement of TSAPI as a way to encourage adoption of this standard and to facilitate further discussion across the industry that may help to develop the standard and give it the attention we believe it deserves.
Have you ever wanted to transfer tabulated data from one platform to another? Perhaps from data table to visualisation platform? You’re not alone.
In 2005 Geoff Wright & Iain MacKay developed an XML format for describing the structure and content of survey cross-tabulations.
File-based standard for transferring data and variables between survey systems. The Triple-S standard defines a means by which both survey data and variables may be transferred between different survey programs, using files, running on different software and hardware platforms. The initial version of the Triple-S standard (version 1.0) was devised by Keith Hughes, Stephen Jenkins […]
