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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology |  Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | The NeOn Methodology structures ontology work as a controlled process with reuse, scenarios, and reviews. It is useful when ontologies should not emerge ad hoc but modularly and reusably. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60–90 min | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate | 1-3 h pro Pattern |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-8 | 2-10 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling |