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Re: [ontolog-forum] vague wish lists VS formal specifications

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From: "Schiffel, Jeffrey A" <jeffrey.a.schiffel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:34:02 -0600
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[from Deborah McPherson]:
> With a checklist to follow, untrained customers will be better
> prepared and able to state what their needs are and organize their
> resources to provide ontology engineers, programmers, and formal  
> specification writers with what THEY need to get the data to flow in  
> potentially customized, atypical manners.    (01)

[from Pat Hayes]:
> For the record, our KE mavens (I am not one of them) tell me that one
of
> most efficient such analysis techniques involves collaborative 
> construction of a concept map, which is one reason we have developed
> so much software around this apparently trivial notion.    (02)

Pat and Deborah,    (03)

My group's experience in uncovering project requirements is the same as
Pat's KE mavens - simple concept maps are a fine, collaborative way to
get at underlying concepts. User training is easy, development fast, and
the results are easy to read and understand. They create a basis for
jumping off into any degree of formalism appropriate for the next steps
of the project.    (04)

Deborah wishes users to think through a checklist in advance of the
first collaboraton meeting. This has benefits, but perhaps also a hidden
booby trap. A checklist can guide thinking along pre-determined lines
(i.e., the concepts underlying the checklist). This can be at odds with
the need for collaborative exchange. In other words, the
ontologist/analyst group's culture may inadvertantly color the user
group' cultural assumptions. This, however, can be mitigated.    (05)

Regards,
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Jeffrey Schiffel
The Boeing Company - IDS Wichita
System of Systems Engineering
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