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Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
A paper-based illustration representing arc42 with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
arc42
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.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.
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MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h pro Pattern1-2 Tage2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-61-42-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment ViewCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
Paper illustration of Property Graph Schema Design with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Property Graph Schema Design
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record