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

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Yes, I think we need to be much more careful about the categories
we use.

As an example, take students as a subcategory of Data Users.
A grade school student has a very different technical vocabulary
and mathematical skills than a graduate student in environmental
modeling.  The typical grade school student is not going to know
what to do with a document describing "pitch-roll-yaw" coordinate
systems, whereas a student wanting to verify geolocation from
a satellite data stream might need that kind of document.

Likewise, a hedge fund manager who wanted to create "snow futures"
derivatives [and there is a new exchange that deals in such items]
should have a much deeper understanding of probability theory and
its application to future value than, say, an IT person who has to design
interfaces.

I think we need to have a list of concepts with which each category
might be familiar, as well as a list of scientific and mathematical
skills and tools we expect this category to be familiar with.  There
is no such thing as a generic "naive user" - and I think we would be
making a mistake assuming that users are very similar and have the
same interest in IT tools that many developers have.

Bruce B.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov> wrote:

> On 02/11/11 12:51, Bruce Barkstrom wrote:
> > 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".
>
> In the Data Stewardship Principles [1], we had broken these into three
> broad categories: Data Creators, Data Intermediaries, and Data Users.
>
> It sounds like you are getting much more detailed than that. For now,
> I cut/pasted some of your notes onto a new wiki page [2] where we can
> work on this issue and refine the list.  We may want to pull this
> content into one of the tools later..
>
> Curt
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Principles
> [2] http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/PreservationCommunities
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