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Use Case Name

VUE Federated Search

Context of Use

not specified

Scope

Interoperability

Level

Summary

Primary Actor

User 

Stakeholders and Interests

n/a

Preconditions

  1. Repository plugins have been loaded in VUE.
  2. The user has rights to access content in shared repositories.
  3. The searched repositories have exposed their metadata to search

Minimal Guarantees

The map is saved to disk containing the modified asset metadata.


Success Guarantees

Assets are located in repositories based on search keywords and their description and thumbnail are returned to VUE

Success Guarantees

The modified asset is written to the shared repository updating the metadata.

Trigger

n/a

Scenario

  1. User clicks on checkboxes to indicate which repositories to search.
  2. User enters search term in search panel and clicks "Search".
  3. (Search results fill "Results" panel.  Each result has a thumbnail and description.)
  4. User may drag results from "Results" panel to map.

Extensions Extentions

 

Variations

 

Summary

A student in an Asian architecture class wants to find images to illustrate a presentation on "Temple Roofs in Sub-tropical Climates".  The student selects the Dome, Museum of Fine Arts, and Black Ships and Samurai repositories, enters "temple" and "roof" in "keyword" box, and clicks "Search".  Results are returned to "Results" panel.  The student drags the images that best illustrate his topic onto the map.

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