Improvement of Data Portability of ENQUETE-BAISE: A General-Purpose E-Questionnaire Server for Ubiquitous Questionnaire

Data portability is the ability for users to reuse their own data between interoperable applications, and is getting treated as an important characteristic of web and cloud services in recent years. Meanwhile, many e-questionnaires are performed on the Internet by some ways of web applications today. ENQUETE-BAISE, a general-purpose e-questionnaire server, is being developed as one of servers that runs e-questionnaires. This paper presents the improvement of data portability of ENQUETE-BAISE. At first, the paper gives the definition of data portability of e-questionnaire systems, and then shows improved ENQUETE-BAISE and the usage. The paper also proposes the advantages of improving the data portability of e-questionnaire systems and the problems caused by improving it.