Owner monitors support levels and directions for Owners / Maintainers

Preconditions

The user is logged into INTERSECT with the owner role assigned.

Postconditions

The owner is able to see a dashboard that breaks down the amount of contribution being done to a resource by user.

Methodologies

  • Assumptions:

    • One owner employs / manages multiple Maintainers / Operators

    • Each Maintainer / Operator only supports one Owner

    • Each Maintainer / Operator may support several Resources and support levels may not be evenly distributed because they may have been the contingency / fallback for some Resources

  • Context: This panel’s goal is to quickly tell the Owner who has been contributing / supporting how much and which Resource. There is a possibility that an Operator / Maintainer mainly focuses on 2 of 7 instruments they were requested to support. Looking at support levels for each Resource might be tedious. A single view might provide the Owner with a more wholesome picture.

  • Table:

    • with columns:

      • Resource

      • Resource Classification

      • Operator / Maintainer

      • Campaign ID

      • Campaign date and time

      • Campaign classifier(s) - E.g. Materials, Biology, Manufacturing, etc.

      • Primary / Contingency Resource - whether this Resource was requested as the primary Resource for the Campaign or ended up being used as a fallback / contingency / secondary Resource

      • Campaign outcome - Success / Error / Aborted by User

    • Table should allow Owner to group a set of Resources if they own several different kinds of Resources such as scanning probe microscopes, electron microscopes, …. Typically disjoint set of Operators / Maintainers for each group of similar / identical Resources.

    • Owner should be able to filter by any of the columns

    • When at most three columns are remaining, INTERSECT should allow the Owner to plot column A vs Column B with column C as the legend. The Owner should be allowed to pick which columns in the table make up the axes and the curves / legend.

    • Plots should answer questions such as:

      • Operational:

        • Operator / Maintainer:

          • How much is Operator X contributing per week for all Resources?

            • Line / bar graph with time on X axis and number of campaigns on the Y axis

          • Who are the primary Operator(s) who support Resource Y?

            • Bar chart with Operator on the X axis and number of campaigns on the Y axis

            • OR line graph with time on the X axis and number of Campaigns on the Y axis with each Operator represented as a different line

            • OR stacked bar graph with time on X axis and number of Campaigns on Y axis with a stack of colored bars for each time step representing number of Campaigns supported by each Operator

          • Who are the primary Operator(s) who support Resource Classification P?

            • Family of lines

          • Is there a correlation between the Campaigns that are a success and the Operator / Maintainer?

        • Efficacy / Reliability of Resources:

          • Which Resources have a higher proportion of successful Campaigns as opposed to errors?

        • Utilization rate

          • Number of Campaigns/time-unit

          • Hours in use/time-unit

          • time-unit : [ day, week, month, year ]

        • Utilization as primary vs. secondary Resource -

          • is this Resource primarily being used in place of another unreliable Resource or do Users request this Resource when composing their Campaign

          • Can also break down secondary into:

            • Declared as secondary Resource in Campaign

            • Owner modified Campaign(s) to use this alternate Resource instead of the Primary / secondary Resources declared in the Campaign

          • Stacked (composition) bar graph (Primary + Secondary = 1.0) with X-axis indicating time and Y-axis indicating percentage of utilization type

          • Family of lines - X-axis is time, Y-axis is percentage of primary usage. Different lines denote different Resources. Perhaps this sort of a graph illustrates to the Owner:

            • which Resources are picking up the slack when one or more are unavailable?

            • Which Resources are simply popular in Campaigns compared to others in the same Resource set?

      • Scientific

        • What domains use this Resource the most? What have the trends been over time?

          • Set of bar graphs - one per unit time. Each graph could show counts of Campaigns for each of the top N scientific domains.

An example interface is depicted in Fig. 97.

An example interface

Fig. 97 Owners can see who is contributing to what resource.