The SWORD Course

Module2 SWORD

use cases

Module objectives

• By the end of this module you will:

– Know what a use case is

– Understand some of the common SWORD use cases

– Have discussed other possible use cases

Use cases

WHOcan do

WHATwith a

SYSTEM

Use case examples

Restaurant

Order meal

Receive & eat meal

Pay for meal

Cook meals

Customer

Chef

SWORD use cases

• Deposit from a desktop client

SWORD use cases

• Deposit to multiple repositories

Institutional repository

Funder repository

Subject-based repository

SWORD use cases

• Deposit by lab equipment

SWORD use cases

• Repository to repository deposit

Institutional repository National repository

SWORD use cases

• Publishing system / publisher to repository deposit

Publishing system (e.g. OJS) Long term storage repository

Discussion

• What other use cases can you think of?

• What use cases do you have?

– What items could you be collecting?

– Who creates these items?

– What are the current barriers to deposit?

– How could SWORD help?

– What other systems could SWORD work with?

Credits

• This course has been produced by:

– Stuart Lewis

• The SWORD project

– http://swordapp.org/

• Funded by JISC

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

• Licence

– Creative commons

Photo Credits

• Lecture hall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/2008790/

• Storm trooper: http://www.flickr.com/photos/number657/1820689479/

• Amersham Spot Picker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jepoirrier/310164625/