[Go-essp-tech] Minutes: Make-up Dry Run of ESG Model Metadata UI 9/14-15/09

[Sylvia Murphy]

Present:

Arie Shoshani
Alex Sim
Luca Cinquini
Sylvia Murphy
Julien Chastang
Cecelia Deluca

First off I would like to thank Arie and Alex for their patience when  
the hardware crashed in the middle of our demonstration.  Your  
flexibility and participation is much appreciated.

In this demonstration, we spent the majority of time examining ESG's  
search interface.  This part of the system is controlled by Luca and  
company.  Here are some of the highlights:

1) Arie thought it would be useful to conduct more complex searches  
such as "find all of the simulations where dataset = project and  
simulation = topic".  Right now in the search interface, you first  
have to select one target and then select facets that modify that  
resource.  The above use case involves the desire to return a target  
(simulation) but through the modification of another target (dataset).

2) Arie also thought that the free text option, without a list of  
sample searches, would not be effective because users would not have  
any idea a priori what items are searchable.  The example was a search  
on Forcing would return no results while a search on the values of any  
Forcing instances in the system (e.g. volcanic, wind, green house  
gases etc) would return results.  The user has no way of knowing  
this.  To solve this problem,  Arie suggested some explanatory text be  
written on what the text search is supposed to look for.

Arie and Luca took this discussion offline and they may want to report  
if other items were identified.

In review of Curator's trackback page the following items were  
identified:

1) The need to provide definitions for all the controlled vocabulary.   
This task has already been identified.  The definitions of the  
controlled vocabulary will have to be provided by Metafor and this  
task will not be considered until after the questionnaire is complete  
in early 2010.

2) Arie pointed out the same navigation issue that the participants of  
the primary dry run noticed namely the need for a component navigation  
mechanism.  The Curator team is already brainstorming options to  
achieve this.
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Sylvia Murphy
Project Manager

Earth System Modeling Project
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
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murphys at ucar.edu






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