Conceptual Modelling

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

The activity that elicits and descibes the general knowledge a particular information system needs to know.
Focus on “general” knowledge (university -> students)
“Elicit”: we’ve done this through data requirement analysis
“Describe” - mechanism

Question 2

Conceptual Schema

Answer 2

The output of the process ; making the choice explicit (the conceptual modelling process)

Question 3

General Knowledge

Answer 3

A domain consists of the objects and the relationships among them.

Question 4

Instance Of

Answer 4

Entities and relationships are instances of concepts
Maria being part of module of 111 is an instance of an overall registering class

Question 5

Ontological Commitment

Answer 5

Assume that the world is made up of objects and their relationships

Question 6

Important

Answer 6

Did not look at how classification (specific detail, “Maria Kimura is a student”) is going to look like once implemented.
This is the basics; we know a person has an age and a name, but we do not assign them to classes like a database just yet.