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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
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 h pro Pattern1-3 Tage Setup, laufend15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-62-81-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
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 ChecksADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
EngineeringProductivityGovernance
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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