Defining Use Cases for Federating Library Services

["T. Howell" <>]

Hello Everyone,

It seemed appropriate to start the discussion about the Use Case Sub-group
at this point as we are rapidly approaching our Friday call time.

At present, I have our membership listed (on the Wiki) as: 
Thomas Howell (Northwestern U) -- Chair
John Kiser (U of Penn)
Andy Dale (OCLC)
Tod Olson (U of Chicago)

Our present charge as listed on the Wiki is:
"Develop a comprehensive list of use cases related to accessing information
vendors from a variety of starting points, group them as appropriate and
prioritize them."

I think a good starting point that mentioned was reviewing the existing use
cases already listed by the members of the primary group:
<https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/inclibrary/Use+Cases+--+Shib+and+EZpro
xy>

We can definitely collect and expand upon the use cases already listed as
well as extend the list as seems appropriate. 

So on to the several questions I had: 
- What format/software should we use to create the use case grid? (Any
preferences, ie. the existing wiki, MS Word, spreadsheet of some sort, et
cetera)
- Would folks be willing to meet 30 minutes earlier for 45 minutes?
(Unfortunately I have an inflexible meeting on Friday at 1:15 EDT)
- What metrics should we use in describing and prioritizing the use cases?
(I've seen both a numeric grid and simple ranking approaches, or perhaps
another alternative).

In any event, thanks for your responses in advance.


Sincerely;
Thomas Howell.
Lead Web Developer and System Analyst
Northwestern University Library Technology Division