Search all resources

This is part of the submitted UseCaseList.

Scenario

A description of the scenario that you have in mind.

The user wants to search for a specific information in all Bernstein resources: databases, cartography, bibliography. For example he wants to know everything that Bernstein can tell him about the watermark type "eagle". He makes one single query in the integrated workspace and gets a reply saying there are 4000 files in the databases where the watermark type "eagle" appears, there are 12 statistics visualizing the statistical proprieties of these 4000 files, there are 5 maps that Bernstein can produce and there are 125 bibliographical references related to the "eagle". The user is interested only in the bibliographical references, so he clicks on the link and gets to the data pulled from the bibliography.

Importance

How important do you see this use case as?

• Must Support

Dependencies

What other use cases are affected by the implementation of this one?

• Databases usability / db integration / cartography / bibliography

Input

Things that the user must/might supply to the system.

• Mandatory:
  • types of information the user is looking for among a list of options provided by the workspace (eg. search "watermarks")
  • content of the type of information (eg. "eagle")

Output

Things that the user will receive in response to their request.

• Type and quantity of available ressources (paper description files, maps, bibliographical references)
• links to the available resources

Difficulties

Areas in which you foresee problems/issues arising.

• DBs have to support a robust query type by keywords

Example

An example supporting this use case.

• See above scenario description.

Other Information

Any other information that you think is important to include.

• ...

Comments

Comment from other partner regarding the use case.

• Input of two or more search terms - combined with Boolean operations - should be possible (eg. watermark="eagle" and location="Leipzig") - MathiasManecke

• And perhaps also some fields where the user can give extra Information about chain-line distance, countermark, time (between, after, before) etc. - GeorgDietz

• There should be a chance to group and sort output by different criteria (e.g. time periods) FriederSchmidt

-- VladAtanasiu - 19 Oct 2006