Re: first couple of use cases

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Shelley Powers wrote:
>   
>> I'm posting links to the first couple of use cases. Ian, you'll want to 
>> pay particular attention the first one on annotation, as I believe you 
>> misread the original use case request.
>>
>> Links are at:
>>
>> Annotation 1: http://realtech.burningbird.net/print/657
>>     
>
> The text you suggest, if I understand correctly, is:
>
> | Within a writing published on the web, I want to add annotation into the 
> | text to highlight specific facts, but I don't want such highlighting to 
> | distract from the text, so I don't want it to be visible. An example of 
> | the type of annotation I may make is to highlight the word "Napoleon" 
> | and annotate this word with an assertion that Napoleon is a person, and 
> | to add further information, that the person, Napoleon, is related to 
> | France (a country).
> |
> | I write on many topics, and so I may make use of several different 
> | vocabularies in order to perform my annotation. In addition, I may have 
> | to create my own vocabulary if the annotation I want to make doesn't 
> | match any of the known and previously published vocabularies. If I do, 
> | I'll do so in such a way that there can't be a possible conflict with 
> | any other vocabulary.
> |
> | Once my text is documented, I want to be able to access this annotation 
> | at a later time, separate from the document. To do this, I'll process 
> | each of my writings with an application that will pull out this 
> | specialized annotation, for aggregation and later query. In addition, 
> | by using a standard metadata annotation technique and model, the data 
> | can also be accessed by search engines, making the data also available 
> | to others.
>
> I don't understand this. This is indeed more like Kingsley's original 
> text, but it's not a use case scenario. It doesn't explain _why_ anyone 
> would want to do this.
>
> What is the problem that these annotations are solving?
>
>
>   
>> Search 1: http://realtech.burningbird.net/print/654
>>     
>
> This is similar. It mixes a proposed solution and a scenario: "I do 
> something and then hope something else happens". The important part is the 
> "something else happens"; we should not decide how this is solved ("I do 
> something") when writing down the problem description.
>
>
> (Also, it'd be really helpful if we could keep scenarios shorter -- one 
> reasonably-sized paragraph or so. It's very hard to properly evaluate 
> descriptions that are that long.)
>
>   
Actually, Ian, I'm pursuing a different course as regards microdata in 
the HTML5 specification. But thank you for actually reading the page.

Shelley

Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2009 02:14:54 UTC