Re: Additional review and telecon (Tuesday) for Best Practices

Hi Bernadette,

On 17/12/13 04:53, Bernadette Hyland wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the review you did do.  See inline below.
>
> On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Dave Reynolds <Dave.e.Reynolds@gmail.com> wrote:

>> # 4 Data Modelling
>>
>> Not sure what value this section adds, it says too little. Should either say more or say that modelling advice is out of scope.
>
> Will beef up with a bit more description to make it clear the modeling step is really important.   In the real world we face people who heard there is a 'convert to RDF' tool and they cannot distinguish between auto-magic conversion vs. well-modeled content that uses standard vocabs & is expressed as something others can re-use.

I'm not sure beefing this up is the way to go.

Fully agree that the modelling step is really important. But it's not 
clear to me that we could reach consensus on best practices for 
modelling within the short time left. We already have sections on 
ontology selection and ontology creation which are arguably the major 
part of modelling. [Though our advice on creation doesn't actually tell 
you anything about how to develop one.]

My suggestion would be to say words to the effect of:
    * Modelling is really important.
    * Advice on detailed modelling is out of scope for this document.
    * A key part of modelling is selecting or developing appropriate 
ontologies, some advice on this is contained in the following sections ...

Cheers,
Dave

Received on Tuesday, 17 December 2013 08:33:50 UTC