[Design] [Cosmo] Usage Scenarios for GData/Atom

[Mimi Yin]

After many rounds of questions and answers and a lot of patience on  
bcm's part, I think I finally have a first pass at end-user usage  
scenarios that would be supported GData and Atom.

While in the short-term, the primary users of GData will be  
developers looking for easy ways to move data around, we envision  
that in the long-term, the Cosmo development community will create  
interesting end-user applications for this technology. This is a  
thought exercise to explore how some of those scenarios might pan  
out. This is by no means a complete list, but it starts to paint a  
picture of real-world usage.

BLOGGING
+ I write about obscure, suburban and rural teen and pre-teen  
lifestyle trends.
+ I write a travelogue about traveling to towns where UFOs sightings  
have been reported.
+ I write about gadgets smaller than a breadbox and bigger than a  
thumbnail.
+ I write about cooking shows that use mail-order kitchen appliances.
+ I write about cultural cross-over celtic/cantonese rap groups.
+ I write about the art of nano-origami.

I use a blogging client to organize and publish my research, media  
(pictures, video clips, audio), and writing. The client speaks GData/ 
Atom and publishes my writing to a variety of websites, all of which  
pull my writing from my Cosmo account, where the data actually lives.

(Someone could write a parcel so that Chandler could be this client.  
OR, this client could be developed completely independently of OSAF.)

Additionally, whenever I refer to specific products, tv shows, towns,  
books, albums, or people, my client is able to encode that  
information as pre-defined types so that other clients who can  
understand these types can pull them down.

+ Someone can add the tv cooking shows I review to their "tv shows"  
calendar.
+ Someone can add the products I review to their wishlist manager.
+ Someone can add a town I write about to their travel planning app.
+ Someone can add the people I write about to their people manager.

They would either do this because my client identifies data as  
events, contacts and Cosmo is able to spit out standard file formats  
(e.g. .ics, vCard). OR Cosmo is dumb about the data types and the  
client on the other end can understand the GData types defined by my  
blogging client.

LOW-TECH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
+ I am a entomology enthusiast. I keep track of and archive  
interesting research, articles in the mainstream media and  
blogosphere about butterfly migration patterns in the Northern  
Hemisphere. I have an app that helps me organize all of the materials  
I find, keep track of citations and sources and publishes my archive  
to a website I maintain. I want to make the materials I collect  
available to others interested in this research in a standard data  
format with citations intact, topic tags and comments. My archive app  
publishes my material as 'research' data to Cosmo. Cosmo doesn't  
necessarily understand the 'research' data type. But other 'research  
organization apps' do.

PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
+ I use a travel planning app to plan my vacations. Flight schedules,  
hotels, walking tours, safaris, museums, restaurants, shows, shops,  
etc. However, I need to be able to access this information, not only  
through the travel planning app, but also through my desktop PIM, my  
mobile device, my web calendar. I also want my family members to be  
able to pull down this information into the various PIM apps they use.

Follow-up Questions
1. How do these usage scenarios fit in with our stated organizational  
and poduct/service goals? There are clear applications in the realm  
of small-workgroup collaboration.

2. How does this affect planning on the desktop client side? Where  
can Chandler desktop play a role in these scenarios?

Mimi
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