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Search Name By Authority
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Use Case: Search Name by Authority

Actors

Primary Actor
Taxonomist, systematist or expert ecologist

Description

The user would like to find the set of all taxa possibly related to a taxon -for which they only give the name. This tool would be useful to systematists during their initial exploratory phase of studying a particular taxon. They are intersted in the taxon concept in the widest sense and want to ensure that they consider all possible taxon concepts in their study. Therefore they want anything that might be what they are interested in, not just things that are exactly (or nearly) the same concept.

Flow of Events

Pre-conditions

  • none

Basic Flow

  1. The user enters the name of the taxon of interest
  2. SEEK returns all possible "synonyms" and "homonyms" in xML format to the user for consideration. Need a mechanism to limit the depth of the synonym search (i.e., how far you go in the synonym of synonym of synonym...)

Post-conditions

None

Alternative Flows

Further Details

Non-functional Requirements

None

Issues

Need to have some way of indentifying concepts across SEEK so that users can request them easily - say if they select a sub-set form a return set they may want more info on these and should be able to query with the set of identifiers.

History

30 Jan 2003
(group) Entry created at meeting
29 April
(JK) Extended entry


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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