V-botknowtest/Requirements/PreliminaryQuestions

• Who are the users of the Botanical Knowledge Portal?

 Plant taxonomists
 Molecular biologists
 Ecologists
 Tree-users (phylogeneticists)
 All other biologists
 Border agents
 Policy makers
 Citizen scientists
 General public
 Searchers for authoritative names

• What other platforms does the Botanical Knowledge Portal interact with, and in what ways?

 Filtered Push; Canadensys; Specify; Morphbank; Flickr; Morphster OntoBrowser.
 (Does the portal interact with Specify and Morphbank directly, or via Filtered Push?)

• What reasoning services will the portal provide?

 Classification; ?

• What other computational services will it provide?

 Mapping; services in support of taxonomic revision (?)

• What functionality (currently supplied by other platforms) does the portal duplicate or exceed?