Structuring the Page on Case Studies
We need to figure out how best to structure the page. The basic use case is "student/learner finds case study of relevance to learning objective".
Questions:
- How can free software case studies be classified to meet that generic goal?
- Sector - public, private/business, academic/education, civil/NGO, health, environment, ...
- Aspects - highlighted/emphasised - technical, legal, economic, organisaional, ...
- Region - e.g. southern Africa, western Europe, ...
- ...
- What other classifications?
- Status: candidate, under development, complete, ...
- Target readership: tertiary education, professionals (management, technicians, ...), ...
- How can these classifications be implemented in search?
- On a wiki/cms using categories/tags
- Taxonomies, ontologies, ...
- How may case studies be prioritised/selected for [further] development?
- Choose the one(s) which
- will meet your specific goals
- cover gaps not covered by existing case studies
- inspire the people developing the case studies
- have cooperative champions
- have readily available background information
- ...
- Choose the one(s) which
Make an inventory? - Tabulated. What columns?
- Case Study Title
- Author
- Organisation
- Brief Description
- Completion status
- Quality - e.g. ready for use
- Sector - public, private, civil, ...
- Domain - education, health, public services, environment, ...
- Learning value potential
- High: covers ...
- Medium: ...
- Low: limited scope (e.g. only technical lessons learned, ...)
- Effort required to complete for our purposes
- ...
See also: Prioritising free software case studies
