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Use Cases

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Saved by Karen Coyle
on May 15, 2012 at 7:30:59 am
 

The FRBR model provides a four-step set of user tasks:

     find, identify, select, obtain

These user tasks are matched to the data in catalog records. However, they seem to assume a traditional look-up in a stand-alone library catalog. In addition, the analysis in FRBR links existing library catalog data to these user tasks, it does not do the opposite: it does not take, for example, "find" and ask: what are all of the ways that we want to make it possible for users to find items held by the library? So if you start with the assumption of the current catalog record, you of course end up with nothing more than the current catalog record.

 

Instead, this page will take the opposite approach. Please send any use cases you have to kcoyle at kcoyle.net.

 

Find

 

  1. A user is looking at an article on Wikipedia. The bibliography links to the user's favorite library or libraries.
    1. supporting data: URI for the work that links to manifestations in the library catalog
    2. supporting data: identification of libraries and library holdings
  2. A user has just finished a great mystery and wants to read another one.
    1. supporting data: "readers who liked x also liked y"

 

Identify

  1. A user needs to find in the library a book from the recommended reading list of her history class.
    1. supporting data: a link to the library copy from the reading list
    2. supporting data: or an option in the library catalog to see what courses the book is currently being used in

 

Select

 

 

 

Obtain

 

 

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