7. Environmental Concept Maps

Actor(s)

A user who wants to understand how the system's data fits into a larger environmental context, or what data is available within a larger environmental context.

Description

Given a data variable, a non-expert in a particular science domain like Guy wants to understand how that variable is associated with environmental reactions and the interplay of other variables. Meanwhile, a domain expert like Hil is using the domain model as a way to look for data sources that can help address certain hypotheses. Each wants a linkage between the data set, and particularly the terms that describe each data item that is available, and the conceptual model that describes the domain of interest. Exploration can occur easily from either direction, if relationships between the data and the model can be represented by the computer.

Solution Space

Conceptual models like the one at GoMRC that understand the relationship of different terms to each other, and to the scientific activities. Concept maps that describe a scientific domain.