Table 1
Table description. Description of each column in the use case table, documenting the information intended to be captured from use cases.
| COLUMN | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| A | ID of the use cases; these are referenced below and immutable to any sorting |
| B | Use Case: The use case in the form “As a [role] I want to [goal] so that [benefit]” |
| C | Actor: The role perspective of the use case, copied out for your convenience |
| D | Cluster: The name of the cluster (see Method and Cluster sections below) |
| E | Contributed by: Gives you the name of the IN member who entered this use case. |
| F | Source: The event or source this use case was found (see table below) |
| G | Closely_related_to: ID of use cases that were related to this one, nearly duplicates |
Table 2
Documentation of the sources used.
| SHORTHAND FOR SOURCE | DESCRIPTION (INCL. WEBLINK, IF AVAILABLE) |
|---|---|
| Implementation Network | These use cases were found by the members of the Implementation Network. https://www.go-fair.org/implementation-networks/overview/discovery/ |
| Observation Study | These use cases were taken from Krämer et al. (2021) |
| Workshop | ‘Data Discovery Across Disciplines’ at the Open Science Fair 2019. During the session, participants were asked for their use cases. https://www.go-fair.org/2019/11/04/workshop-report-data-discovery-across-disciplines-at-open-science-fair-2019/ |
| RDA IG Data Discovery | The RDA interest group has collected these use cases through a survey. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1050976 |
| EUDAT-Prace Summer School 2019 | These use cases were collected during the summer school. https://eudat.eu/eudat-prace-summer-school-2019 |
| DKRZ Researcher | These use cases were collected from individual researchers working at the DKRZ (https://www.dkrz.de/), the German Climate Computing Centre. |
Figure 1
Summary of use case distribution (left) and ranking (right). Distribution is plotted depending on use case categories (cluster) and actor. Six use cases were reported for both researchers and students, and some use cases proposed for students may be relevant for researchers. The ranking of each category was assessed in a survey with 25 answers.