3. Conceptual Modeling: First Steps

3.1Conceptual Modeling Language Criteria
  • Desirable features

  • Language design trade-offs

3.2Conceptual Schema Design Procedure
  • Modularize

  • Apply the seven-step CSDP

  • Integrate

3.3CSDP Step 1
  • Verbalize information examples informally

  • Translate into elementary facts

  • Varieties of information

3.4CSDP Step 2
  • Draw the fact types

  • Populate with sample facts

3.5CSDP Step 3
  • Check for object types to be combined

  • Identify arithmetically derived fact types

3.6Summary

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