Re: accessible UML for meta models

I created an XMI version of the task meta-model diagram, you can find it at
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxfvGzIzaJzuZWw0NG8wUjJ5b28

It was automatically generated by the Visual Paradigm tool, and it is 
full of weird ids. I don't think this is a problem if the diagram is 
read by a tool, but I think that it is better to provide a text 
description using a bullet lists or a table, maybe inserting also links 
between the related model entities.


Best

--Davide

Il 04/05/2012 13:36, Dave Raggett ha scritto:
> One point that came up in yesterday's call is the likely need for an
> accessible version of the UML diagrams used for the meta models in the
> AUI and Task Models specifications. I am not sure of the best way to do
> this, and perhaps we need to think about a simple text format. An
> alternative would be to export the diagrams to XMI and include the XML
> as an appendix.
>
> Am I wrong in thinking that a suitable textual format would be a 3
> column table where is row shows a named relationship between two named
> nodes in the diagram? The relationship name would include an annotation
> for the cardinality constraints, e.g. [0:1] or [1:1]. Additional tables
> would list properties for named nodes, e.g. as would be needed for the
> Task node in the Task Models meta model.
>
> More information on accessible UML:
>
>     http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com/accessibleuml.html
>
> p.s. please ensure that the resolution of the UML diagrams is
> sufficiently for good quality printing. Google Docs allows you to resize
> the diagrams to fit the page width.
>


-- 
Lucio Davide Spano
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo"
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via G. Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa (Italy)

Received on Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:40:27 UTC