Scenarios

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Scenarios

• Peter Douglas, Intrallect
• p.douglas_at_intrallect.com

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Scenario

• Vignette about the system
• Written from an imaginary persons point of view
  - very specific
• Details, motives and emotional content
• Plain English
• Not the requirements - but gets us familiar with
  system and provides useful starting point for Use
  Cases.

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Example

• Peter is working on a project that is developing
  a multimedia online resource based on a
  performance of a Shakespeare play. While
  gathering the materials that will go into the
  resource Peter obtains some photographs. He gets
  permission from the photos rights holder for the
  photos to be used in an educational context by
  other users. Peter puts the photos into a digital
  repository, complete with the rights associated
  with them. The photos are now available for
  others to use. Peter works for Linlithgow
  University and they are very concerned that any
  rights are not contravened.

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Other Example

• Johns Hopkins University
• Tracking Student Assignments
• At times faculty may assign, say viewing a video
  clip, that has been linked in the CMS. A grade is
  not associated with the viewing, but students are
  required to view a certain number of selections.
  Faculty would like to know who is viewing which
  clips. A step further would be that if the
  students viewed a specific number, this would be
  relayed to the grade book. Faculty would have an
  easy method of determining what clips are being
  viewed and by whom, as well as if a student has
  or has not done the assignment.

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Another Example

• E-Portfolios Reference Model

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Activity

• Write your own Scenario
• Something to do with Digital Repositories
  (anything!)
• Pairs - briefly agree a situation
• Then separate and write a scenario each - your
  take on the situation
• 15 minutes

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Further Discussion

• How do your two scenarios compare?
• Do your people play a similar role in the system?
• Are they trying to do the same thing?
• If there are differences are they significant?