Restructuring the "Use Cases" Wiki page

Greetings to the Music Notation list!


After reviewing the list of suggested use cases, I realized the
information on that page could be structured in a way that guides our
discussion more helpfully. Following the wiki spirit, I went ahead and
reogranized the page, and now I would like to explain my changes and
invite community members to make your own revisions.

Just to be sure everyone has it, here's a link to the wiki page in 
question:
https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/MusicXML_Use_Cases

Although I intend to modify the page contents, so far I have restricted
my changes to structure and organization. The goal was to separate out
four distinct concerns I saw, all of which are related to describing the
use cases of a symbolic music notation representation. To that end, the
four sections describe:

1.) "User Roles" assumed by people using music notation;
2.) "User Actions" performed by people who have assumed a role;
3.) "Technical Requirements and Considerations"; and
4.) "Progress Notes" about what has and has not yet been considered.

As above, this involved changing only the structure of the
document---with one exception. I removed the "developer" user role,
meaning specifically that I removed the "Developer" line from the "User
Roles" section, but all related concerns are still represented in the
section about techincal requirements. This helps to clarify that User
Roles are musical people and that User Actions are part of a musical
activity. Our Technical Requirements fall out of the musical activities
we decide are in our scope, and our Technical Considerations help
software developers use the encoding format.

By no means do I suggest that I've come upon the best solution, or that
I properly categorized everything. If you have suggestions, please feel
free to edit the wiki, and post to the list so we know what you've done!


Thank you,
Christopher

Received on Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:53:25 UTC