[Esip-preserve] A Thought on "Artifacts" Use Cases

[Bruce Barkstrom]

I think it would be useful to make sure that we have
concept maps (or mental models) of the users for
particular scenarios that become use cases when
we're considering the "artifacts recommendations".

Here are some possible categories of user communities:
1.  Data Producers, further broken down into such subcommunities
as biodiversity samplers, aerial survey mappers, climatology builders
using in situ data, and so on
2.  Disciplinary Earth science researchers, perhaps broken into
such subcommunities as climate modelers, statistical climate
researchers, oceanic chemists, soil hyrdologists, and so on
3.  Government agency managers, such as watershed managers,
EPA or CDC environmental monitors or regulators
4.  Federal agency funding managers
5.  Students, probably broken down into a manageable number
of age and interest groups, such as K-6, 6-12, college, graduate student
and so on
6.  Project managers responsible for instruments or software
7.  Data center personnel, including administrators, operations staff,
etc.

For each of these categories, it would be very helpful to have
a concept map that represents what kind of concepts they
might be familiar with.  For students, we could pull concepts from
the state and national educational standards list, perhaps with some
help from the educational cluster.  It might also be helpful to categorize
the concepts by skill level.  For example, mathematical proficiency,
with some gradation, such as
a.  Can do pencil and paper exercises
b.  Can use simple tools or spreadsheets to do calculations
c.  Can program simple algorithms
d.  Can understand and program error analyses.

A simple question to start with: have we got a common list of
the user communities we think would need to go into this kind
of activities?

Bruce B.
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