Hi Everyone,
Sorry I'm late with this,but here it is. I tired to keep it as simple
as I could.
I am sending them via my Mac, so I have sent them in 3 forms--.doc,
.htm, .txt. You should at least be able to read the .htm in a browser
and the .txt in notepad if nothing else, but the .doc probably won't
open in Word.
Ciao,
Rex
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Institutional Scenario Document
WSIA Institutional Scenario: ADA Educational Studies
Version <1.0>
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Table of Contents
1. WSIA Scenario: Americans With Disabilities Act Educational
Studies 1
1.1 Description 1
2. Participants 1
2.1 Institutional Entity 1: Office of Congress Member,
Representative Jane Doe of California Congressional District XX 1
2.1.1 Role 1
2.1.2 Relationships 1
2.1.3 Business Objectives 1
2.1.4 Solution Requirements 1
2.2 Institutional Entity 2: U.S. General Services Administration,
Public Information Division 2
2.2.1 Role 2
2.2.2 Relationships 2
2.2.3 Business Objectives 2
2.2.4 Solution Requirements 2
Institutional Scenario Report:
<ADA Educational Studies>
1. WSIA Scenario: Americans With Disabilities Act Educational Studies
1.1 Description
The context of this Scenario is a request from some Entity, be it a
Post Graduate Fellow conducting research, or an Agency of the
Executive Branch, or a Congress Member's Office to the U.S. General
Services Administration for information relating to some educational
implementations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
This represents an Institutional Scenario for Web Services, for which
this Committee needs to make allowance because Web Services, per se,
is by no means restricted to Commercial Business Applications. It
might be wise to seek more than one such Scenario for our purposes as
we focus in on formal Use-Cases from which to derive our Requirements.
2. Participants
For the purpose of this Scenario, the Entities will be fairly
recognizable, but short of actual.
2.1 Institutional Entity 1: Office of Congress Member, Representative
Jane Doe of California Congressional District XX
2.1.1 Role
In this case, the office of the Congress Member's Office, it will be
acting on behalf of the Congress Member in her function of drafting
legislation and will be seeking two kinds of information, at large
public information and information specific to her congressional
district.
2.1.2 Relationships
The Congress Member's Office has a standard relationship with the
U.S. General Services Administration in relation to official requests
for public information, subject to privileges and permissions
pursuant to various laws and statutes relating to privacy of personal
information.
2.1.3 Institutional Objectives
The Congress Member's Office requires information to aid in arguments
to establish a new School for the Deaf in the Congress Member's
Congressional District. This may require both public and private
information. The rate of increase in the number of individuals
qualifying for special education under the Americans With
Disabilities needs to be documented, and the specific numbers of such
individuals in the Congress Member's District and surrounding area
serviced by Federally Funded Transportation Corridors and Service
Providers, such as Public Highways and Railroad Routes must also be
documented.
2.1.4 Solution Requirements
The Congress Member's Office needs complete, definitive information.
If this requirement is in conflict with individual rights, a means
needs to be found to reconcile these interests.
2.1.4.1 Functionality
A Web Service Application created to fill this need must be able to
perform this reconciliation.
2.2 Institutional Entity 2: U.S. General Services Administration,
Public Information Division
2.2.1 Role
In this case, the Public Information Division of the GSA needs
automation that tells it whether the request is valid and if there
are restraints on its ability to fill the request. Then it must
conduct the search for the information, again in as automated a
process as can be allowed. There is almost undoubtedly a need or
requirement for a human functionary to pass final judgement on
whether or not to forward the information once it has been collected.
2.2.2 Relationships
The relationships between the Entities involved in this transaction need to
be formally stated and agreed to in the forms filed to initiate the
transaction.
2.2.3 Institutional Objectives
The GSA has a mandate to fulfill in a lawful manner. However, beyond
that, the application which the Institutions use to conduct this
transaction and collect and transmit the information stipulated ought
to deliver the information in the way requested, so a further set of
requirements may be needed to be elucidated concerning the data model
and formatting of the information.
2.2.4 Solution Requirements
The are three sets of requirements in the solution represented here
and all must be addressed in a solution that is acceptable to all
three, the Congress Member's Office, the GSA, and the members of the
public whose personal information is being sought.
2.2.4.1 Functionality
There are several kinds of functionality that must be attended in
this Scenario.
The functionality of the request mechanism sets the stage for the
transaction and must be understood by all interested parties.
The functionality of information gathering must address the protocols
of legal permissions, and standardized data models.
The functionality of delivering the information is an aspect that
may, or may not be addressed by the Web Services Application designed
to fill this need in this kind of Institutional Scenario. It can be
as simple as a dataset or as complex as a specified Xform crafted for
a customized legislative delivery page, portion of a page, table or
set of tables, etc. The information may also be requested as the data
for a specific chart or set of charts. The objective of making the
justification for legislation a standardized procedure has obvious
benefits, but also entails some drawbacks as well. Allowing for all
of these possibilities appears to be consideration in deriving a
viable use-case for either a business or institutional use-case.
OASIS WSIA Technical Committee
Requirements Document
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