[Use Cases] Bibliographic Tagging

Very quick user stories for tagging/annotating of books in a library, that
are summaries of much longer versions (can be supplied if it would be
useful)

1. Classify a Work with a simple tag.
Anna tags a book with "tech" meaning that it is a technical manual

2. Classify a Work with a controlled string.
Ben tags a book with "technical manual" from a dropdown list of strings

3. Classify a Work with a controlled URI.
Catherine tags a book with what she sees as "technical manual" from a list
of dropdown strings, but in the background creates a semantic tag using a
URI from an authority list

4. Provide additional description of a Work.
Don adds a paragraph worth of text about a book that he knows well, but
lacks significant description or review in the discovery system.

5. Provide additional description of a Work, using external resources.
Elaine tags a work with an external image of its cover.

6. Create a simple collection of Works.
Frank tags 10 works with the same string, and then wants to see the list of
those tagged resources.

7. Create a permanent collection by first tagging the Works to be part of
the collection, and then triggering the collection creation process.
Ginny tags 15 Works towards a curated exhibit. She then goes to an admin
interface and selects the tag she used, and the system creates a permanent
URI for her collection and allows her to provide additional description,
order the items within it, and so forth. [NB collection creation out of
scope, but including for reference]

8. Update a permanent collection by first tagging the Works to be part of
the collection, and then triggering the collection update process.
Harry is updating a reading list for his class.  He tags another 5 Works to
be added to it. He then goes to an admin interface and selects the tag he
used, and the reading list to be updated. The system adds those works to
the existing collection, and allows him to provide additional description,
reorder the items, and so forth.  He then has the system delete the tags it
just processed. [Ditto]

9. Update a collection by tagging another collection to become part of it.
Ingrid tags 2 collections of maps to be part of a larger super-collection
of map images. She then goes to the admin interface, as previous use cases.
[Ditto]

10. Discover resources through tags (browse).
Jon sees a tag on a resource that he is interested in and clicks on the
tag.  He is taken to the list of all resources that have that tag.

11. Discover resources through tags (search).
Kelly does a search for "technical manual" and the result list is
sub-sorted to boost resources tagged as technical manuals.

12. Filter resources through tags (facet).
Liam does a search that returns too many results.  Some of the resources
have tags and he filters the list based on the desired tags in the facet
list.


Rob

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Rob Sanderson
Information Standards Advocate
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305