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Transforming Object-Oriented Model to a Web Interface Using XSLT

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Citizen science projects are based on gathering data from citizens. Citizen science projects start from understanding what type of data is needed and from whom. This can lead to creating a conceptual model for the project. Citizen science projects often use web interfaces and creating the interfaces require specific tools or programming knowledge. Having a method for creating the interface from a conceptual model would increase project development speed. This paper tackles the presented idea by using simple steps to create a web interface from an object-oriented conceptual model using XML transformation language XSLT. The model is transformed into a text-based representation using XSD that is then turned into an XML template. Finally, XSLT is used to generate a web interface by transforming the XML file. Results show that the process from object-oriented model to XML can be automated and the programming required for a working web interface is minimal but without other programming languages, the functionality is lacking. At the end of this article, some design suggestions are given to increase the functionalities while maintaining a low amount of programming.

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  1. Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, 53850, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Jiri Musto & Ajantha Dahanayake

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  1. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Tatjana Welzer

  2. Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

    Johann Eder

  3. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Vili Podgorelec

  4. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Robert Wrembel

  5. University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirjana Ivanović

  6. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Johann Gamper

  7. Poznań University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Mikoƚaj Morzy

  8. University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

    Theodoros Tzouramanis

  9. Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France

    Jérôme Darmont

  10. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Aida Kamišalić Latifić

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Musto, J., Dahanayake, A. (2019). Transforming Object-Oriented Model to a Web Interface Using XSLT. In: Welzer, T., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1064. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30278-8_25

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