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The following use cases describe normal uses of the Yaffle application. A VIVO backend would need to support these cases.
1.0 | Use Case | Example |
Title YaffleKM-ISF.pdf | Public submits Research Opportunity into Yaffle. The goal is to match Public with Researchers. Matches can be made by Broker(s) and using the following criteria: Research Interests, Expertise, Publications, and Research Projects | Transmission Link on Labrador coast |
Precondition | Idea articulated by Public Group and entered into system by a person in that Group as a Research Opportunity | The directors of the regional economic development boards in the area write and submit a Yaffle.ca research opportunity and follow up with a phone call to the Harris Centre. Local fishermen express concern with the proposed transmission link, essentially a high power cable laid on the ocean bottom of their fishing grounds. |
Actors | - Public (Group)
- Application (Yaffle)
- Authentication (MUN Login)
- University Staff (Brokers)
- University Faculty
| - Executive directors of two Regional Economic Development Boards in the area. Regional Economic Development Boards are classic QUANGOs (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations) set up to coordinate and foster regional economic development. At the time, there were 20 such organizations around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Harris Centre institutional knowledge brokers: The role is to broker research opportunities between community and Memorial university researchers.
- Researchers: Initially, an oceanographer, and eventually a business professor as well.
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Steps | - Idea/Opportunity is emailed to the University (Harris Centre) then articulated in a phone call.
- Public person is directed to online application (Yaffle)
- Public identifies/clicks Guest User in Authentication system
- Public creates Guest User account in Yaffle
- Idea/Opportunity is entered into Yaffle as Opportunity
- Broker staff match Public with Researcher based on Research Interests, Project work, Publications
- Broker initiates collaboration between Public and Research
- Broker documents Opportunity as Project
| - The Harris Centre Knowledge Mobilization staff use Yaffle.ca to find a Researcher with the Ocean Sciences Centre who agrees to meet with the community.
- The researcher addresses the immediate concerns of the fishermen in a town hall meeting event
- Following the meeting with the residents, the researcher agrees to take a look at the engineering data provided by the public utility. He prepares a short report outlining his concerns. The executive directors of the local REDBs use the report to support their application to the federal government to secure funding that would allow them to conduct appropriate environmental assessment studies.
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