[humanmarkup] An Institutional Scenario

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Greetings Sandra,

I wanted to follow up on your suggestion that the WSIA Requirements 
Process also consider Institutional Scenarios as well as Business 
Scenarios in gathering the practical requirements of the entire web 
as we proceed toward writing a Requirements Document.

I just wrote to Susan Turnbull of the GSA regarding one such 
scenario, which happens to be based in reality and could serve 
several purposes. In the course of one of her agency's sponsored 
workshops at NSF October 17, 2001, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga, the Chair 
of the Humanmarkup TC spoke and I attended by teleconference, Susan 
described an economics conference she attended where a great deal of 
time was spent cross translating terms from different languages and 
cultures. I have asked her to write a short description of this 
example with the purpose of drawing conclusions about requirements 
which the HumanMarkup TC can use in its own requirements-writing 
effort. Hopefully, I don't need to expand upon how this example can 
also be used for the same purposes by the WSIA TC.

However, simply because this scenario is being considered by the 
HumanMarkup TC doesn't mean that other, more focused scenarios 
shouldn't be pursued, so I am also interested in any examples you 
might develop. Also, I am not asking that such scenarios include 
specific requirements for HumanMarkup to be included. That would help 
me very much, but it should not be viewed as a constraint for 
engaging my willingness to work on any such example scenarios.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks.

Regards,
Rex Brooks
OASIS HumanMarkup TC Vice Chair, Secretary, Webmaster
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