List of Submitted Use Cases

Additional material for use cases is provided in BugsAndWishes. Some are important issues and should be addressed.

The use case template is in UseCaseRequirements. Here is a filled-in example: SearchByImage.

Main use cases

Main usages to be supported by Bernstein as set by the Description of Work (ranked by importance):

1. Paper expertise
   1. Dating paper samples
   2. Paper documents authentication
   3. Paper expertise by image processing
2. History of paper
   1. Quantitative history
   2. Historical cartography of papers
3. Auxilliary usages
   1. Paper studies bibliography
   2. Integrated paper-incunabula research
4. Dissemination activities
   1. Paper cataloguing database software
   2. Systems scalability and acessibility

Specific use cases

1. General aspects
   1. MultilingualSupportUseCase
   2. UsecaseStateArchives
2. Workspace level
   1. SearchAllRessource
3. Databases specific use cases
   1. DB search
      1. speed (DbSearchSpeed)
      2. reliability (DbSearchReliability)
      3. ambiguity (DbSearchAmbiguity)
      4. missing data (DbSearchMissingData)
      5. synonymy (DbSearchSynonymy)
      6. shape ambiguity (DbSearchShapeAmbiguity)
      7. elements (DbSearchByElements)
      8. incomplete watermarks (DbSearchIncompleteWatermarks)
      9. multicriteria and logical operators (DbSearchMulticriteriaAndLogicalOperators)
      10. heterogeneous content (DbSearchHeterogeneousContent)
      11. statistics (DbSearchStatistics)
      12. watermark and countermark (DbSearchWatermarkAndCountermark)
      13. watermark twins (DbSearchWatermarkTwins)
      14. terminology (WmTerminologyUseCase)
   2. DB input/output
      1. answer export (DbAnswerExport)
      2. ISTC, GW link (IncunabulaLinkUseCase)
      3. scalability (ExternalInterconnectivityUseCase)
   3. DB content
      1. DB uniform image scaling (DatabasesUniformImageScaling)
      2. Error treatment (DbErrorTreatment)
4. Expertise
   1. dating (PaperDatingUseCase)
   2. authentication (PaperAuthenticationUseCase)
5. ImageProcessingUseCase
6. Cartography
   1. CartographyUseCase
   2. CartographyBibliographyIntegrationUseCase
7. Bibliography
   1. BibliographicalReferences
   2. CartographyBibliographyIntegrationUseCase
8. The world outside Bernstein
   1. ExternalInterconnectivityUseCase

Integration architecture

1. DataPullSchema summarizes the flow of data between components that has to be supported by the integrated workspace
2. DoiUse presents an integration proposal favored by VenueViskom (EmanuelWenger, VladAtanasiu) and LAMOP (EzioOrnato) for database and tools integration

-- RobSanderson - 08 Sep 2006