Use Cases and Scenarios for the Species Profile Model

1. A human agent wishes to aggregate content from several pages dealing with the same species to develop a synthesised view;
2. Integrating "portals" like Encyclopedia of Life need a uniform species model to allow them to process in a scalable way the millions of species pages available on the web;
3. Automated/semi-automated retrieval and aggregation of content;
4. Facilitate more intelligent searching;
5. Expression of species model as RDF for Semantic Web applications;
6. Facilitate generation of RSS/Atom feeds for alerting and update services
7. A modeller wants to dentify freshwater species in eastern Australia that will be impacted by severe drought predicted in a climate change scenario
8. A resource manager wants to contact experts who will help him identify pollinators of Ulex europeaus
9. A zoo wants images of species related to the giant panda for educational purposes
10. A conservationist wants information about dispersal of wolves in Europe
11. An scientist wants information about hosts, vectors, enemies and potential impacts of a proposed biocontrol agent
12. An educational outreach person wants information about human uses of a species protected under the CITES convention

Cross Thematic Network Mashup

There are three thematic networks; one for lowland plant conservation, one for crop plants and their allies and one for insect pollination biology. All three networks have species pages and their own information requirements but there is much overlap. Researchers want to build a portal around the case studies for introduction of a genetically engineered crop into an region that is covered by all three thematic networks. How do they ingest and combine information from the different networks? -- EamonnOTuama - 09 May 2007

There is a web accessible data set of butterflies which lists coarse geographic distributions and the nectar plants of species. There is a thematic network of flowering plants with flowering times in various geographic regions. Build a service which tells what butterfly species might possibly be flying at a given time in a given area. -- BobMorris - 12 May 2007

More Scenarios Please

-- EamonnOTuama - 09 May 2007