Farrukh asked:
Evan,
This use case
[Ontology search supporting ontology development -Evan]
seems like a sub-use case of:
[Use Case] #3 Collaborative ontology development
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/regrep-semantic/200401/msg00035.html
Do you and others see it that way too?
Yes. Particularly given some of the flow descriptions in Use Case 3.
Perhaps its an alternative flow?
Described in Use Case 3 terms, Use Case 8 was about searching the repository
to discover subgraphs which model some extendable domain of interest, and
then creating a new subgraph which extends the one(s) discovered. The new
subgraph then may or may not be uploaded to the repository. Note though that
my use case carefully avoided concerns related to multiple editors of a single
subgraph. That is an important, but different, use case (subcase of 3).
Its worth pointing out that Use Case 8 was just one stab at ontology
discovery. A more thorough exploration of this should be done to define
requirements.
I think the best way to relate the existing use cases is to add a use case
relationship to 8 which states that it is a subcase of 3, and broaden 3
sufficiently to support this.
-Evan