Difference between revisions of "Conceptual Model"

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{{quote-diesis|A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships) <ref name="wiki"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_model</ref>.}}
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{{quote-diesis|"A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships)." <ref name="wiki"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_model</ref>}}
  
 
=== Other International Definitions ===
 
=== Other International Definitions ===

Revision as of 10:17, 10 June 2014


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DIESIS project

The DIESIS project [1] gives the following definition:

"A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships)." [2]


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