This page provides a model of our understanding of the essential requirements for the SKOPE system. The model is based on the approach described in the book Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design (Gause & Weinber,1989) and comprises three types of elements: users, functions, and attributes.
Users
In this model a user represents someone who (1) will be affected in some way by the SKOPE system, and (2) we choose to take into account when designing, implementing, or deploying the system.
Researcher | Scholar in the social and natural sciences who wants browser-based access to the best-available reconstructions of key environmental variables for a given location and temporal interval. |
Tinkerer | Researcher with a more focused interest in a specific reconstruction model, and who wishes to adjust parameters and rerun the models. |
Modeler | Researcher who seeks to build and offer broad access to new or modified models and/or retrodicted environmental data through SKOPE. |
Data provider | Representative of an organization that has granted data for direct acc |
System Administrator | |
Developer | |