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Hello RootsChat,
My name is Stephen Tippin and I am currently completing the third year of a computing course at the University of Worcester. For my final project, I am attempting to design and build a piece of software that will allow family historians to store and analyse census returns.
At present the analytical tools that I am considering are only applicable to my own requirements, but I am sure that there will be other tools that should be considered for the final software. This is where you come in, if you have 5 to spare it would be great if you could fill in the questionnaire linked to this message.
The questionnaire focuses on what analytical tools family historians would like to see in the software, as well as what the final piece of software should look like. Most questions are giving a rating out of 10 for certain tools, or how you feel about existing software.
All data obtained from the questionnaire is 100% anonymous. No personal detail will be obtained that is able to identify who has provided a response. In line with the University of Worcester’s guidelines and the Data Protection Act (2018) all responses will be deleted within a year of completing the project (est. May 2023).
To ask any further questions, please feel free to contact myself, Stephen Tippin (tips1_19@uni.worc.ac.uk), or my project supervisor Richard Wilkinson (r.wilkinson@worc.ac.uk).
If you are able to help out the link to the questionnaire is; https://forms.gle/qDYWe9sDgfjvHq2P9 (https://forms.gle/qDYWe9sDgfjvHq2P9)
Thank you for your time,
Stephen Tippin
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this may be of interest to you https://www.johngrenham.com/blog/2021/06/ and the link within https://cantabular.com/blog/republishing-historic-1911-irish-census-interactive-dataset/ video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8ieo3YuQA
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this may be of interest to you https://www.johngrenham.com/blog/2021/06/ and the link within https://cantabular.com/blog/republishing-historic-1911-irish-census-interactive-dataset/ video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8ieo3YuQA
Thank you for the insightful links, they will certainly help me when it comes to writing my project up!
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The form takes ages to load, then gets stuck at Page 1. It looks like it's looking for me to confirm that I have read the information and am happy to take part in the research, but there's nowhere to click to agree to this. Clicking on Next does nothing.
Hoping it's a temporary glitch, but posting this in case you get no uptake, so that you know why!
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The form takes ages to load, then gets stuck at Page 1. It looks like it's looking for me to confirm that I have read the information and am happy to take part in the research, but there's nowhere to click to agree to this. Clicking on Next does nothing.
Hoping it's a temporary glitch, but posting this in case you get no uptake, so that you know why!
I could not get past page 1 either, but I thought it was because I had to sign in to Google, I refuse to have a Google “account” :)
Mike
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The form takes ages to load, then gets stuck at Page 1. It looks like it's looking for me to confirm that I have read the information and am happy to take part in the research, but there's nowhere to click to agree to this. Clicking on Next does nothing.
Hoping it's a temporary glitch, but posting this in case you get no uptake, so that you know why!
I could not get past page 1 either, but I thought it was because I had to sign in to Google, I refuse to have a Google “account” :)
Mike
Thanks for confirming that, Mike. I did sign in to Google but got exactly the same as you. The blurb suggested that signing into Google was just to save your place, so that you could come back to the form later…
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Worked for me :)
Perhaps i was just lucky!
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Fisherman how did you get past the first page?
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Answered the questions on the page then clicked on next
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I had no problems completing the survey on my iPad. :)
Good luck with the project Stephen. It sounds interesting.
I have a suggestion for the layout of your survey ….
‘Back’ button is better on the bottom left …
‘Next’ button is better on the bottom right.
Currently it is too easy to hit the “clear” button on the bottom right where most surveys have the “next” button. (this is just a petty nit pick from someone who does thousands of online surveys) ;)
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Yes, I too had NO difficulty using my e device. I avoid surveys except if they have an academic purpose, as my e- device has a tiny dialogue box and as I learnt to touch type ummm.... 1960s, on manual tyoewriter, it is a peculiar new way to actually look at a virtual keyboard, when my training and many decades have my head looking to my real documents to my left on my actual real desk (top) ...
Many thanks for the survey. My right hand index finger is learning to spell. :)
JM.
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The form takes ages to load, then gets stuck at Page 1. It looks like it's looking for me to confirm that I have read the information and am happy to take part in the research, but there's nowhere to click to agree to this. Clicking on Next does nothing.
I am sorry to hear that people are having trouble filling in the questionnaire, I have just had a look on my laptop and my iPad and the form loads for me, so hopefully it was just a brief issue with Google last night. There is a question on the first page as pointed out by Fisherman, this is the only required question within the questionnaire so it does need to be clicked before you can access the second page.
I could not get past page 1 either, but I thought it was because I had to sign in to Google, I refuse to have a Google “account” :)
You should not need a Google account to fill in the form. I believe this option is just to allow people to save their progress. For people who are signed into Google when filling in the questionnaire, no personal data (such as username) is obtained by the questionnaire, it is fully anonymous.
I have a suggestion for the layout of your survey ….
‘Back’ button is better on the bottom left …
‘Next’ button is better on the bottom right.
Currently it is too easy to hit the “clear” button on the bottom right where most surveys have the “next” button. (this is just a petty nit pick from someone who does thousands of online surveys) ;)
Thanks for the suggestion Ruskie. I don't know if I can change the button layout as this was pre-set by Google, but I will look into it.
And finally, a big thank you to everyone who has filled in the questionnaire so far! Your help is much appreciated.
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Hi,
Quick and easy for me, I would welcome the opportunity and be very interested to view results of the survey.
Good Luck !!
Helen.
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Is working today! :) Even the first page is working, as is the check box to accept terms. Must just hqve been a temporary glitch. Form now completed.
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Yes, fully working - just completed.
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Filled it out this morning. Keep us posted. Thank you.
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I have a suggestion for the layout of your survey ….
‘Back’ button is better on the bottom left …
‘Next’ button is better on the bottom right.
Currently it is too easy to hit the “clear” button on the bottom right where most surveys have the “next” button. (this is just a petty nit pick from someone who does thousands of online surveys) ;)
Thanks for the suggestion Ruskie. I don't know if I can change the button layout as this was pre-set by Google, but I will look into it.
I’d say it’s not worth the effort to try to change it. It’s only a short survey and won’t bother the majority of people. Google can take the blame. :)
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A big thank you to everyone who has filled in the questionnaire so far. Your help is much appreciated.
In regards to the issues that some users had of accessing the form, it looks like this was a temporary issue with Google, so hopefully there should be no further issues going forward.
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I just wanted to thank everyone who has filled in the questionnaire for me once again.
If there is anybody reading this who can spare of couple of minutes to fill in the form, the questionnaire will be available until the ends of this week. Any assistance with this research will be much appreciated.
Stephen Tippin
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Missed this so just completed.
Good luck with your project. Hope you get a "Patty Hearst" for it ;D ;D ;D
Corryn
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I just wanted to drop a quick message to say thank you to everyone who filled in the questionnaire for me. Without your help I would have been unable to achieve an A for my project which has helped my achieve a first overall.
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Well done! Pleased we could help...
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I just wanted to drop a quick message to say thank you to everyone who filled in the questionnaire for me. Without your help I would have been unable to achieve an A for my project which has helped my achieve a first overall.
Well done! And thanks for letting us know. ;D
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Congratulations.
Really pleased for you. Glad to have helped
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Let us know, if and when, your software becomes available...
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I just wanted to drop a quick message to say thank you to everyone who filled in the questionnaire for me. Without your help I would have been unable to achieve an A for my project which has helped my achieve a first overall.
Oh Congratulations!!! ;D ;D ;D