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Goals

Initial open release of Brown Dog.
Highlight what can be done with a Data Transformation Service via a suite of tools, a number of sample clients, and test data to quickly try things on.

The beta release will:

Provide the community with a first glimpse of Brown Dog
Allow the Brown Dog team to increase exposure through presentations and hands on tutorials
Allow the team to identify bugs through real world usage and harden the service towards a 1.0 release

Many users will want to as quickly as possible try out the system
Will need to support very novice users (easy to use interfaces/samples)
Some users will begin to regularly use the system, throwing many requests at the service

#	Title	User Story	Importance	Notes
1	Beta Tools	Preliminary set of tools spanning multiple science use cases as well as general usage. Will serve to highlight breadth, types of tools sought after for future contributors, and playground for new users to try out the service.	Must Have	http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/tools/ Project Supported Transformations Progress
2	BDFiddle/Bookmarklet	Describe the user and what they are trying to achieve	Must Have	http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/bdfiddle/
3	BDFiddle test files for all tools		Must Have	http://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/bdfiddle/examples.php
4	Beta Clients	BD CLI, Windows Client, R Library, Python Library, Matlab Library
5	Documentation			Documentation
6	Admin/Support plan		Must Have	Administration
7	Announcement

Include any mockups, diagrams or visual designs relating to these requirements.

Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of this requirements document:

Question	Outcome
(e.g. How we make users more aware of this feature?)	Communicate the decision reached

List the features discussed which are out of scope or might be revisited in a later release.