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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration for Golden Path
Engineering
Golden Path
Purposedifferent
ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 h pro Pattern1-3 Tage Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-62-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationGolden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
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Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
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Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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Operations
Getting Things Done