A Use Case for Helping Users "Qualify" Their Environment for OODT

[Bruce Barkstrom <br...@gmail.com>]

I've had some extensive e-mail conversations with
Chris Mattman regarding UML design documentation
and how it might be helpful to OODT.  After looking
at some of the documentation in the OODT Web
site(s), I thought the enclosed use case might be
helpful for designing an interface for users who wanted
to know what kind of configuration they might need to
do and what they might download.

I've included two versions of the use case:
1.  A PDF version that could be placed in an
appropriate place for public visibility.
2.  An Open Office version that could be modified
by developers and contributors.  Open Office doesn't
cost anything, so it is available to anyone that
wanted to download it (as opposed to MS Office
products, say).

I'm working with BOUML, a free Open Source
piece of software, which rivals Rational Rose and
related design tools for creating UML - all the way
to code generation (Java, C++, etc.).  Simply
Google BOUML and go to the site to obtain it.
I have been using it for a number of years and
would be happy to use it to provide UML for OODT
if there's an interest.

As a note on my background, here's a brief
summary of my experience:
Current State: Retired civil servant in Asheville, NC;
   unaffiliated but publishing
Science Data Provider and Production System Architect:
   - Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (NASA) Experiment Scientist 1980-1990
         production system: 250,000 SLOC (mostly FORTRAN) at LaRC
   - Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (NASA) Instrument PI
1990-2001
         production system 650,000 SLOC (mostly FORTRAN with some Ada) at
LaRC
   - Participant in EOS Data Panel for EOSDIS, including all EOSDIS Design
Reviews
Data Archive Management:
   - Head, Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, NASA LaRC 2001-2006
   - Participant in GGF, including Co-Chair of Preservation Environments WG
with
         Reagan Moore
Long-Term Information Preservation
   - Project Manager, Science Data Stewardship, NOAA NCDC 2006-2008
I program in Ada, including concurrent systems designs for computational
economics, as well as being familiar with UML - and have some smattering
of experience with FORTRAN and Java.

Bruce R. Barkstrom

Re: A Use Case for Helping Users "Qualify" Their Environment for OODT

["Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Big +1 from me too on this one. Also I didn't see the PDF either. But, I was able to open the use case ODT file in TextEdit on Mac OS X 10.5.6 and the use case looks good to me. Based on feedback from others, we could put together a quick patch to the documentation on the website that incorporates the use case into the site docs. I've filed a JIRA issue [1] to track this.

Welcome, Bruce!

Cheers,
Chris

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-28

On 8/25/10 9:30 AM, "Justin Erenkrantz" <ju...@erenkrantz.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've included two versions of the use case:
> 1.  A PDF version that could be placed in an
> appropriate place for public visibility.
> 2.  An Open Office version that could be modified
> by developers and contributors.  Open Office doesn't
> cost anything, so it is available to anyone that
> wanted to download it (as opposed to MS Office
> products, say).

Welcome!

Note that I don't see the PDF actually attached and I don't have
OpenOffice, but I'd definitely be +1 to making such docs available.
This would be a very very good thing to have!  -- justin



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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: Chris.Mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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Re: A Use Case for Helping Users "Qualify" Their Environment for OODT

[Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've included two versions of the use case:
> 1.  A PDF version that could be placed in an
> appropriate place for public visibility.
> 2.  An Open Office version that could be modified
> by developers and contributors.  Open Office doesn't
> cost anything, so it is available to anyone that
> wanted to download it (as opposed to MS Office
> products, say).

Welcome!

Note that I don't see the PDF actually attached and I don't have
OpenOffice, but I'd definitely be +1 to making such docs available.
This would be a very very good thing to have!  -- justin