Wageindicator Foundation: a Case Study
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Wageindicator Foundation: a Case Study
Huub Bouma
October 10, 2007
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Introduction
• What is WageIndicator
• Organisation
• Questionnaire technique
• Web portals
• System architecture
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What is WageIndicator
• Websites containing information about work and income
• Per country and per target
• Income questionnaire
• Salarycheck
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Organisation
• WageIndicator Foundation
• goal: labor market transparency
mission statement:
”Share and compare wage information. Contribute to atransparent labor market. Provide free, accurate wage datathrough salary checks on national websites. Collect wage datathrough web surveys.”
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People involved
• scientific research
• datamanagement
• content
• management
• marketing
• technique
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Techniques overview
• Salary Survey
• Questionnaire Management System (QMS) for constructingthe survey
• WageIndicator web sites
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Survey technique
• engine (socrates) built with java
• GPL license
• modelled after the w3c XForms standard
• engine reads XML models
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Questionnaire Management System
• surveys are constructed with the QMS web application
• only available for the survey designers
• plone application
• Custom i18n layer
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Web sites
• Simple Archetypes based product
• Very simple, but flexible enough
• skinning for partners
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Architecture
• HA architecture (2 production environments)
• Websites behind Apache and Squid
• Remote deployment (scp + quickinstaller)
• Content only managed on acceptance environment
• Synchronizing (from ACC to PRD)
• future: real Plone HA clustering, and load balancing
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Statistics
• 37 plone portals
• 20 countries
• 10 servers: India(2), USA(4) en the Netherlands(4)
number of unique visitors for loonwijzer.nl
• last month: 404,772
• day peak: 100,000