• UCFormat-2006-11-28-snapshot

SWD SKOS Use Cases Description Format - 2006-11-28 Snapshot

This page citable as: http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/UCFormat-2006-11-28-snapshot

Still unsolved (position of mapping section, perhaps , see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2006Nov/0067.html )

Questions marked with an asterix (*) are more important.

Section 1. Application

In this section we ask you to provide some information about the application for which the vocabulary(ies) and or vocabulary mappings are being used.

[N.B. if your use case does not involve any specific application, but consists rather in the description of a specific vocabulary, skip straight to section 2.]

• 1.1. What is the title of the application?
• 1.2. What is the general purpose of the application? What services does it provide to the end-user?
• 1.3. (*) Provide some examples of the functionality of the application. Try to illustrate all of the functionalities in which the vocabulary(ies) and/or vocabulary mappings are involved.
  • [N.B. if your application makes use of links between different vocabularies, do not forget to fill in section 3!]
• 1.4. What is the architecture of the application? What are the main components? Are the components and/or the data distributed across a network, or across the Web?
• 1.5. Briefly desribe any special strategy involved in the processing of user actions, e.g. query expansion using the vocabulary structure.
• 1.6. Are the functionalities associated with the controlled vocabulary(ies) integrated in any way with functionalities provided by other means? (For example, search and browse using a structured vocabulary might be integrated with free-text searching and/or some sort of social bookmarking or recommender system.)
• 1.7. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.

Section 2. Vocabulary(ies)

In this section we ask you to provide some information about the vocabulary or vocabularies you would like to be able to represent using SKOS.

[N.B. if your use case describes a generic application of one or more vocabularies and/or vocabulary mappings, this section is not applicable.]

• 2.1. What is the title of the vocabulary(ies)?
• 2.2. Briefly describe the general caracteristics of the vocabulary(ies): scope, size...
• 2.3. In which language(s) does the vocabulary(ies) come in? In case of partial translations, how complete are these?
• 2.4. (*) Please provide below some extracts from the vocabulary(ies). Use the layout or presentation format that you would normally provide for the users of the vocabulary(ies). Please ensure that the extracts you provide illustrate all of the features of the vocabulary(ies).
  • [N.B. if your vocabulary(ies) case contains cross-vocabulary links (between the vocabularies you presented or to external vocabularies), please fill in section 3!]
• 2.5. Describe the structure of the vocabulary(ies). What are the main building blocks? What types of relationship are used? If you can, provide examples by referring to the extracts given above.
• 2.6. Is a machine-readable representation of the vocabulary(ies) already available (e.g. as an XML document)? If so, we would be grateful if you could provide some example data or point us to a hyperlink.
• 2.7. Are any software applications used to create and/or maintain the vocabulary(ies)? Are there any features which these software applications currently lack which are required by your use case?
• 2.8. If a database application is used to store and/or manage the vocabulary, how is the database structured? Illustration by means of some table sample is welcome.
• 2.9. Were any published standards, textbooks or written guidelines followed during the design and construction of the vocabulary? Did you decide to diverge from their recommendations in any way, and if so, how and why?
• 2.10. How are changes to the vocabulary(ies) managed?
• 2.11. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.

Section 3. Vocabulary Mappings

In this section we ask you to provide some information about the mappings or links between vocabularies you would like to be able to represent using SKOS.

[N.B. if your use case does not involve vocabulary mappings or links, skip this section!]

• 3.1. Which vocabularies are you linking/mapping from/to?
• 3.2. (*) Please provide below some extracts from the mappings or links between the vocabularies. Use the layout or presentation format that you would normally provide for the users of the mappings. Please ensure that the examples you provide illustrate all of the different types of mapping or link.
• 3.3. Describe the different types of mapping used, with reference to the examples given above.
• 3.4. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.