Example use cases

[Melanie M Oberlin <moberlin@gmu.edu>]

Hi Team,

 

I drafted two use cases (below). Is this what we are supposed to be doing in advance of the next meeting? I appreciate your feedback and your examples so that I stay on the right track.

 

Sample use case for legislation - #1

Use case title: Government body (official publisher) wants to refer to a specific representation (the official, authenticated) version of a legislative report.

Description / user story: An editor at the government publishing office is working on marking up a citation to a legislative report. She wants to markup a citation so that when it displays in a search result and a user follows that citation, the user will be taken to the government’s version of the report.

Goal / desired outcome: Markup in the search result with sufficient information to retrieve the government publisher's own content.

Actors: Government publisher’s editor (human), content editing program (software)

Dependencies: The content editing program is capable of adding the markup to the document. The content editing program is capable of capturing or exposing to the editor all the metadata or structure needed to construct the embedded markup. The human editor has access to information defining the resource that the citation should reference. The markup is capable of containing all the necessary metadata.

Assumptions: The editor knows which report to reference. The report is available in the government publisher’s content collection.

Example: the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) wants to direct users to its copy of House Report 112-98 (part 1), entitled America Invents Act, dated June 1, 2011, promulgated by the Committee on the Judiciary, with SuDoc number Y1.1/8:112-98/PT.1. Current available URL: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt98/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt98-pt1.pdf (Please note: this is also published in text form at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt98/html/CRPT-112hrpt98-pt1.htm)

 

Sample use case for legislation - #2

Use case title: Government body (official publisher) wants to refer to a specific representation (the official, authenticated) version of a public law (i.e., un-codified, enacted legislation).

Description / user story: An editor at the government publishing office is working on marking up a citation to a new law. She wants to markup a citation so that when it displays in a search result and a user follows that citation, the user will be taken to the government’s version of the law.

Goal / desired outcome: Markup in the search result with sufficient information to retrieve the government publisher's own content.

Actors: Government publisher’s editor (human), content editing program (software)

Dependencies: The content editing program is capable of adding the markup to the document. The content editing program is capable of capturing or exposing to the editor all the metadata or structure needed to construct the embedded markup. The human editor has access to information defining the resource that the citation should reference. The markup is capable of containing all the necessary metadata.

Assumptions: The editor knows which law to reference. The law is available in the government publisher’s content collection.

Example: the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) wants to direct users to its copy of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Public Law 112-29, enacted September 16, 2011, with permanent citation at 112 Stat. 284. The current URLs are: (1) PDF, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ29/pdf/PLAW-112publ29.pdf, and (2) text, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ29/html/PLAW-112publ29.htm

Thank you,

Melanie Knapp

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