[seek-taxon] concept mapper scenario for review

Thu Jan 26 10:15:44 PST 2006

Ah I see I should read more carefully, my apologies.  You do have a small
set of tasks that you suggested that would show some of the features and
capabilities of concept mapper.  But I was still looking more for a
scenario.

Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
505.277.3157 office

505.610.9657 mobile

505.277-2541 fax
ldowney at lternet.edu

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From: seek-taxon-bounces at ecoinformatics.org
[mailto:seek-taxon-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Laura L. Downey
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:25 AM
To: 'Robert Liu'
Cc: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: Re: [seek-taxon] concept mapper scenario for review

Sorry but I think there is a miscommunication here.  I'm not talking about
the download and installation instructions, I'm talking about the scenario
that we agreed was going to be sent out - sort of a story, or set of tasks
for us all to walk through using the concept mapper to get an idea of the
various tasks and interactions the user might make with concept mapper. 

We talked about this on the last seek taxon conference call - so that we all
walked through the same scenario and that was our starting point for
evaluation.  Otherwise, those of us not familiar with all the things than
can be done would just basically be "playing" around with the concept
mapper.  Since I'm not a taxonomist that would know the subject matter and
actually make up my own tasks, I can't really truly evaluate the concept
mapper without a good scenario.  My initial feedback was a heuristic
analysis of visual design and some interaction design based on standard
human factors issues - but in order for us to see if the concept mapper
supports people in the concept mapping tasks, we need some scenarios to do
this.

Hope this makes sense.  Since we are not close to time, it may be useful for
someone to construct a scenario and we can just walk through that at the
meeting together and do the evaluation on the fly.  I just thought we could
make more use of our time, if everyone had individually walked thru a
scenario with the concept mapper before the meeting.

Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
505.277.3157 office

505.610.9657 mobile

505.277-2541 fax
ldowney at lternet.edu

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From: Robert Liu [mailto:robertliu325 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:38 PM
To: ldowney at lternet.edu
Cc: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org; peet at unc.edu
Subject: Re: [seek-taxon] concept mapper scenario for review

In case you did not receive the previous email about quick test of new
version of ConceptMapper, go to CVS to download it by the link:
http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/seek/projects/taxon/conceptmapp
er.zip

Robert Liu <robertliu325 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I sent this email some weeks ago to seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org. I am not
sure if all of you did not receive it. In the previous email, I attached the
installation program msi file directly. The email server might reject it
because of security issue. Now I changed it into zip file. Hope it could go
through this time. 

Hello:

Here enclosed please find the new version of ConceptMapper. Follow
instruction below for a quick test.

1. installation & configiration

Download and save the attached ConceptMapper.msi file to yor local computer.
Double click it to run the installation program. Accept default values in
the popup windows. After you install the program, you can launch
ConceptMapper by choosing start->all programs->ConceptMapper ->
ConceptMapper. You can also open the help document by choosing  start->all
programs->ConceptMapper ->Help. You can also open the help document by
clicking the question mark on the toolbar or choosing Help->ConceptMapper
Help from the main menu. 

Follow the quick start section in the help document to setup the database
connection.

2. Explore data

a. launch ConceptMapper. 

b. open 'buttercup' example database

c. select 'Kartesz 2004' as the According to. Names will be retrieved for
the selected According to and Names list will be updated with the returned
names. ConceptMapper will also retrieve the first Concept that has no parent
to populate the current active concept tree, e.g. 'Ceratocephala' in this
case.

d. Select 'Ranunculus' from the Names list and click 'Get'.

e. click in the right sid e concept tree to make it the active one to accept
concept.

f. select 'FNA-03 1997' as According to. This time, 'Ranunculus' will be the
first concept and will be retrieved and populated into the right tree.

g. select any concept from the left tree ('Kartesz 2004'), the related
concepts in 'FNA-03 1997' will be surrounded by blue rectangles. The
associted relationships will be shown the relationship list with different
colors for concepts from different According TOs. The currently selected
concept will be surrounded by blue rectangle too. If there are more than one
relationship author, you can also choose a specific author from the dropdown
list on the top of the relationship list to show relationships created by
that author.

h. Select a concept from one of the concept tree, and right click to popup
the context menu, choose 'Edit Concept' to popup the tabbed dialog window
where you can explore detail information about the selected concept.

i. Double click a relationship the relationship list to popup the
relationship dialog window to view or edit the relationship.

j. Click 'Relationship Matrix' tab to view relationships in a table format.
Click an empty cell (white) to popup the relationship dialog window to add a
new relationship between the column and row concepts. Click green cell
(single relationship) to edit the relationship. Click yellow cell (multiple
relationships) to popup the list of relationships, you can select one to
edit it.

k. Click 'References' tab to view and edit references

l. Click 'Specimens' tab to view and edit specimens

3. Export data to TCS(see help document)

4. Import data

a. Create a new database with a name, e.g. 'test'. (see document)

b. Import data from the export tcs file from 3. (see document)

If you get any problem, please con tact me.

Xianhua

"Robert K. Peet" <peet at unc.edu> wrote: 

Xianhua in theory sent it out a couple weeks ago. I too did not get it 
and had to ask. Perhaps he had best resende it to everyone. I will cc 
him.

Bob

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Laura L. Downey wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
>
>
> Just prompting you that I haven't seen anything on the concept mapper
> scenario you were going to send out for us all to review before the
meeting
> so that we could hit the ground running in discussion and feedback next
week
> in Raleigh.
>
>
>
> Laura L. Downey
> Senior Usability Engineer
> LTER Network Office
> Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
> 1 University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
> 505.277.3157 office
>
> 505.610.9657 mobile
>
> 505.277-2541 fax
> ldowney at lternet.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>

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