Re: [xtm-wg] XTM-UCS Analysis

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>]

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Ann,

Thanks for the preliminary "read" on the use cases and analysis yet to come!

I am sure everyone in the Use Case subgroup would like to make the October
meeting a productive one (particularly since we dissolve thereafter). Would it
be possible for you to propose tasks or analysis that would be helpful to have
on hand at the October meeting? I would like to see the Use Case subgroup agree
upon an agenda for its meeting prior to our arrival in Swindon and your
assistance in developing a task list might help drive that agenda setting.

For example, I have access to an electronic version of a subject classification
scheme used for periodicals/monographs in biblical studies. In full it runs some
50+ pages and I doubt that in the time remaining I can perform even an agreed
upon ontological analysis of it. Not to mention that will all the time and ink
spilled on ontological analysis, the time that remains to the group could be
spend debating the principles of ontological analysis to be applied. That is not
to say that the Society of Biblical Literature and others should not undertake
such an analysis nor that it is not important for a fully functional information
system. It is to say that if we intend to produce useable results from the Use
Case subgroup for the XTM effort, that we will have to set our sights lower than
final ontological analysis of entire information domains.

I do have time to select target material to which parts of the classification
scheme would be applied and then to extract from the classification scheme a
selection of its categories to be subjected to ontological analysis. It will
probably not be a large number of "topics" in the common use of word but it
should be enough to satisfy the short range needs of the group.

Questions:

1. Tasks or analysis that you would find helpful prior to the October meeting in
Swindon?

2. Use cases: What additional information would be helpful in your analysis?

3. Agenda: Suggested working process for the use cases group? (In other words,
in your experience with use cases, what issues should we schedule for early
resolution and which ones should be later. I am assuming most use case analysis
progresses in some regular manner. I am hopeful that we can set an agenda  for
the work group that mirrors that process. Discuss, Decide, Move-On.)

Sorry to impose even more heavily on your time. Other members of the Use Case
subgroup (or the larger XTM) should chime in if they have something to
contribute on these issues. I am still working my way through the Sowa book
(Husserl, Brentano, Peirce? Glad I still have my old supplemental reading
texts!) and will try to finish prior to the October meeting.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

(Just hit reply-all if you want to reply to all the relevant lists.)

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



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