Generating Web Services for Statistical Survey Packages from Domain-specific Visual Languages

High-quality, large-scale statistical survey design, data analysis and information visualisation can be very complex. Current statistical COTS software tools provide powerful statistical processing and analysis support but very limited mechanisms for designing, implementing and reusing such support. We have been developing a high-level, domain-specific visual language, the Survey Design Language (SDL), and associated support tool, SDLTool, in conjunction with statisticians. In this paper we describe SDLTool´s support for turning high-level survey design models into widely accessible web services to share complex statistical survey technique implementations run by COTS statistical packages.