Domain models and the ecological approach

November 15, 2007

This a more focused brief discussion to follow up my last post about different approaches to modeling. It attempts to understand some of the similarities and differences between a domain modeling approach and an ecological approach.
Thoughts so far:

Like a domain model an ecological view is concerned with more than the technical issues and interfaces
A domain [...]

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Recent developments in the repository ecology work

November 13, 2007

A brief update on the progress of the repository ecology work. We’ll be revising the draft report shortly but here’s an overview of what else is going on with this work.
ECDL2007 Workshop
We held a workshop in conjunction with this year’s ECDL conference (workshop home page http://tinyurl.com/27jses ). I’ll return to some of the presentations [...]

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Ontologies, domain models, use cases, and the ecological approach (part 1)

November 12, 2007

Or: a Friday afternoon study of poker.
In an attempt to make some more sense of how the ecological view fits with some other key ideas in the repository space here are some different views on a game of poker. I hope that taking a non-repository related example should force a clearer articulation. When time [...]

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