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Use Case 4

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- *Assessment items submitted to the database should be tagged with
+ *Assessment items submitted to the database should be tagged with discipline-specific concepts, as defined by the database. For biology, we have chosen to use the NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus. Ontologies from other disciplines are pending.
+ *Additions or changes to a discipline-specific ontology will be reflected in subsequent versions of the ontology/database. In other words, the ontology is generally not dynamic.
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+ *An ontology for a particular discipline has been chosen and incorporated into the database.
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+ *Faculty member will upload an assessment.
+ *Following parsing of the assessment, the faculty member will be prompted to indicate concepts associated with each assessment item. A pull-down menu might be appropriate (but it could be overly large).
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+ *Faculty member has an assessment item on a new topic in biology.
+ *The current ontology does not provide an appropriate topic or concept for this assessment item.
+ *Faculty member submits a suggested addition to the ontology to the database administration team.
+ *The database administration team incorporates the suggestion into future versions of the ontology.

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