Pre Interview:
Item |
Information/Response |
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Date: |
12/08/2009 |
Requirement # unique id: |
Init1bes1 |
Originator/Customer's Name: |
Tejas Dave |
Originator/Customer's Company: |
EkagraSoft |
Stakeholder Community:
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Software and Application engineers and developers |
Summary of requirement pre-interview, by Reviewer: |
Business Goal: To improve metadata reuse |
Recommended Next Step Enter one: Follow-up interview, Observe, Use Case Template (text), Use Case Model (formalized/UML diagram), Group Discussion, Prototype, Waiting Room |
Follow-up interview |
Interview
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Script / Question |
Information/Response |
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1 |
Hello, my name is NAME. I am calling you today because NCI and caBIG are working toward a new and improved version of the semantic infrastructure to better support integration scenarios. |
Yes. |
2 |
Do you have any solution integration needs? If so, what are they? Have you envisioned new ways of interacting with existing or new parts of the semantic infrastructure? |
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3 |
Are there any business changes you are assuming we will be able to deal with? |
Focusing more to developing browsers for modelers/developers as a consumer base given the requirements above is for improving metadata reuse and primarily ask for: |
4 |
Are there any capabilities you are expecting to be available to support your needs? |
Knowledge/model repository browser (or browsers) to support easy discovery/visulization and reuse of metadata/model components. |
5 |
Do you use any of the existing software/services? If so, what do you like or dislike about it? |
CDE Browser, UML Model Browser |
6 |
If this requirement in met, what would be the benefits? If you do not have it, what would be the negative impact? |
This will improve reuse of metadata. The negative impact would be poor (if not none) reuse and (unintended) redundant metadata. |
7 |
If, for any reason, we were not able to create that solution, do you think there might be another way to solve this issue? Can you think of an alternative solution? |
One alternative solution, other then those involve more manual work for developers/modelers, will be facilitating direct interaction of modeling tools with model or knowledge repository, allowing all metadata to be pulled to modeling tool and allowing developer/modeler to handle comparison/filtering/elimination of model components at the modeling tool level. One downside is, since modeling tools are not necessarily developed to support comparison (or help for doing so), the user may fail to identify the right model component he would choose otherwise. |
8 |
Would you agree that we can summarize your requirement like this? |
Browser (or browsers) that interact with Knowledge Repository and Model Repositories should allow comparison of different models (complete or partial) and various levels of semantic metadata such as data elements, object classes, value domains, concepts. |
9 |
How important is this requirement to the interviewee? Required: Customer Priority/Annotationrement Analyst |
1. Must have |
10 |
On a scale from 1 to 3 with 1 being "not satisfied" to 3 "completely satisfied", how would you rate your overall satisfaction with the product if this requirement was met? (Relative rating/ranking of how satisfied or dissatisfied interviewee would be if this requirement were met/not met) |
2. Mostly satisfied |
11 |
Are there other requirements that you would like to share with us? I'd be more than happy to call you back another time, or if you have another 10 minutes, please share other issues you can think of. |
The browsers that interact with Knowledge and Model Repositories should also support below as a complementary to the main requirement described above:
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12 |
Who else should we talk to in order to elicit more information about this need? |
N/A |
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For specific service enhancement or requirement from Forum entry: |
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13 |
Can you or someone else give me a step-by-step description of how you would describe the expected performance/behavior of the software in order for you to feel that your requirement is met? |
When I search for metadata, I should be able to find the correct model components or data elements in the first page of the returned results (good ranking)
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14 |
Forum Link: |
https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Vocab/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=159 |
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URLs (optional): |
Links to pages or applications related to this requirement |
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References (optional): |
Links to articles, papers or presentations related to this requirement |