Alistair Miles
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:36:24 -0800
Hi Nanette, Thanks for this. I should have said, what I was looking for was whether it would be possible to get something machine-readable out of the tool used to create the diagram, like XMI, SQL, or anything really. If that were possible, then it might also be possible to do a model-transformation on that to auto-generate an RDF schema representation of the same model, and then compare that with the RDA elements schema being created by Diane et al. This could then be a shortcut to validating their work and finding any missing pieces (save us all a lot of manual labour). It was really just on the off chance, not essential to the process.
So can you get Visio to export the model as something machine-readable? Cheers, Alistair On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:30:37PM +0000, Nannette Naught wrote: > Alistair: > > The ERD was created using EERD (i.e., extended entity-relationship diagram) > modeling in Visio. In approaching the task initially, I looked around at > various > modeling techniques and chose EERD, as the extended set gave me options I > needed to represent and it was closest to the ERD diagrams used in FRBR, > etc. As to why Visio? The answer's simple: It's the tool I know and I found a > cool template for EERD's that made it quick and easy. > > If I've missed the question here and the answer you're looking for is what > methodology did I use in creating it, what were my sources, etc. Let me > know. I kept a full record of how it was developed and how it's being > updated. > I can provide a quick bulletted list of the methodolgy used to date. > > Cheers, > Nannette > Nannette Naught > Vice President, Strategy & Implementation Information Management Team > (IMT), Inc. > nnau...@imteaminc.com > (509) 648-4264 > (509) 648-4005 (direct) > Post Office Box 217 > Saint John, WA 99171 -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.mi...@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993