Welcome to the Design Docs!

Documentation on the architecture design of our Seedcase Products. A software’s architecture that is well documented and described is (or should be) the first place to look when trying to understand it and how it works. The design documentation is a way of providing an overall map of our software (or its output) without getting into highly specific technical details. It is also used to communicate the goals, general structure, requirements, and uses of the software to both technical and non-technical people. Along with the design documentation, we also document and post the reasons

Warning

🚧 This section is still in active development and is subject to changes 🚧

Reader

We’ve written these documents considering a few people in mind who will read the documents:

  • New contributors/team members: The most important reason we have written design documentation is to quickly onboard new contributors or team members to the project. We assume that they will likely read all sections. Almost all of the documentation we write with these readers in mind.
  • Other research software/data engineers: These readers will be interested in the much more technical aspects of the design documentation, potentially for their own purposes, for learning, or for modifying Seedcase for their own project. We assume they will read mostly the sections that get into the core details of Seedcase, so we write these sections with these readers also in mind. These readers also include external consultants who will act as expert reviewers of Seedcase.
  • Technical stakeholders: These are people, such as in IT units, that have more technical knowledge and who are potentially involved in approving software and helping with installing it. They are also likely involved in dealing with any server-based errors that might occur with Seedcase, as well as any other software. They might read the introduction sections as well as the slightly more detailed sections, but likely not at the level of the previous two readers.
  • Non-technical stakeholders: This reader is any person who is interested in understanding Seedcase at more than a “How To Install” and “How To Use” level, for instance to learn if Seedcase is relevant for their work. This reader also includes our external partners or those who want to learn a bit more about Seedcase after we’ve presented or advertised it. We assume they will read mostly the introduction and first few sections, so we try to write these sections with them in mind.

Contents

While Seedcase is software, it also interacts with data, so we have written two core parts in mind: