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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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.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.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 minMehrere Wochen bis Monate2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-102-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesOntology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation ReportPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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