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1 Scenario Analysis
A scenario is a detailed description of an activity--possibly imaginary--by one or more actors (persons, software, or physical machines). When enough scenarios are gathered, system designers analyze their commonalities and attempt to synthesize from those a small number of use cases. "Detail" is important in writing scenarios, even if it seems trivial. For example, "bird found at Jordan pond in Maine" and "fish found at Jordan Pond in Maine", which, however, might not encompass a scenario that contained the phrase "rock found on the surface of Mars."
1.1 Bob Morris' Scenarios
Vishwas picks up his phone and takes a picture. He sends it to Flickr. His mobile phone asks him for some metadata about the picture. An app written against the Flickr api turns that into MRTG metadata and sends it to the NBII MRTG ingestion service. Later that evening he tells all his friends where to get it from NBII along with other pictures at NBII of the same taxon that he identified to his phone.
Annette takes a picture of a rare species seen at Jordan Pond, in Maine, where there is no previously reported occurrence of this species. She wants it to be displayed on the NBII site but with location protected. But her phone is gps enabled and it puts in the exact location. She taps a button on her phone and it signifies to the NBII metadata ingestion service that the location is sensitive.
Using a field guide to butterflies of Costa Rica Bob taken a picture in Guatemala. From the Costa Rica guide he thinks it might be Greta ono but he asks a GBIF portal how many pictures are indexed that claim to be Greta ono taken in Guatemala. He compares six such pictures to his own, and decides his picture is Greta ono.
1.2 Freeland Scenarios
- Chris is leading a group of amateur birders into the Madidi National Park in Bolivia. He wants to discover and download all the bird calls/songs for species occurring within the park and wants to know what time of day to expect to hear those species. He also wants to know the conservation status of each species.
- David Patterson wants to identify the nomenclatural act that described the species Pomatomis saltatrix.
- The Remote Ecological Monitoring Society of East Newark (REMSEN), wants to contribute its image library to GBIF, but wants to restrict users from downloading the full quality version of the image. Instead, REMSEN will allow users to download a 72dpi version of the image that it makes available through a JPEG2000 image server. This lower quality version carries with it the Creative Commons license Attribution-Noncommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).
1.3 Annette's Scenarios
The organization Guyra Paraguay put in records through a node specifically so select others in the conversation community can see, via the GBIF portal, and then discuss species identity, distribution, and habitat conditions, etc…, via annotations, that the Guyra can then see and revise their images.
A partner of NBII (Smithsonian’s Botany dept) has been given a legacy collection of audio recordings – with outdated species identification, but of rare species... Sent to a node so that they can add value, potentially check species identification. metadata sent via GBIF, feedback mechanism provides further species id, at the same time that this provides a historical record of distribution and behavior that can be useful for climate change modeling, and more.
Resource managers have been tracking the effects of fire on plant associations at a national park with a series of images. they send in a series of images that are related to each other, i.e., before/after fire images that show the changes in species images. These images show up as related images within NBII, and then are indexed, and metadata shared with GBIF. the client discovery software shows that 1) via species; 2) via location, there are a series of related resources which show changes in species associations (and distributions).
wildlife disease specialists take histological images and put up in Morphbank as showing the effects, epidemiological zoological study, prevelance of disease in a specific area that might further be linked to habitat information/pollution information so that one can find out the reasons for its prevelance in that area, and potentially animal vectors of diseases… (NBII wildlife disease node wants to put images of avian flu in the library)
Sound varies across geographic and populations, can potentially be used to study the relatedness of populations…
a user is interested in cetacean species. Individuals are distinguished by markings - and individual’s migration can be tracked via images – this could potentially need a thumbnail, or a notation in the metadata for an individual or population. …
FUTURE – Dan Janzen’s scenario…. A researcher is in the field and gets bit by a bug – what bug is it, and will I die???? I’m a mammalogist – I don’t know bugs!!! They scan or input a piece of tissue do a search in a mobile user-friendly interface, and behind the scenes a “preferred” or “high-quality” image from a credible resource is choosen to be displayed. They confirm this is the bug. This then is linked to other credible resources, such as species pages from EoL or specialized thematic pages from NBII/USDA plants/ others….that give information about its toxicity.
Management scenarios
A set of Does N. T. Wanttoshare’s images, which were copyrighted but displayed through Flickr for the past five years, have been removed. In the next round of updates to GBIF these images must be removed from the index. Unfortunately several other resources within GBIF's index that are not being removed have referenced that collection or set images within that collection in their related resource fields. The GBIF IPT at the Flickr "node" has a tool that searches for that id in other resources, and removes them.
1.4 Riccardi Scenarios
- Publish direct from Flickr
Earl has a collection of wildflower photos in Flickr. Using tools from his MRTG metadata provider, he registers these photos by extracting the flickr machine tags he has already entered and making them available as MRTG metadata records.
- Find images from Morphbank Web site
Greg searches the Morphbank site for images of quercus alba. The results page includes a count of the number of quercus alba resources available through the GBIF data portal and the thumbnails of 20 of the available resources.
- Export Morphbank collection as a MRTG collection
Debbie has created a collection of images that show a variety of parts of a single specimen. She sets a flag on the collection page that identifies this collection as a MRTG collection. The Morphbank MRTG metadata provider begins publishing the collection overnight as a subcollection of the larger Morphbank collection.
- Export Morphbank collection as a HymenopteraATOL collection
Sigrid has created a collection of images that show a variety of parts of a single specimen. She sets a flag on the collection page that identifies this collection as a subcollection of the larger Hymenoptera ATOL collection.
2 Carausu/DANBIF Scenarios
- DANBIF serves metadata from the Amator observation database where everybody can upload pictures of specimens identified to some taxonomic level and where specialists will do the final identification.
- DANBIF serves metadata from the XXX museum collection of birds is photographed and each specimen record is registered according the DwC schema.
- DANBIF serves metadata from the structured thematic collections A, B, and C of multimedia items each of which has differing MRTG metadata as well as some non-MRTG metadata.
