Carving Up Reality
These two presentations by Giancarlo Guizzardi are incredibly helpful in upskilling your digital proficiency.
- Philosophical Foundations for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling (part 1)
- Philosophical Foundations for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling (part 2)
Guizzardi published a book, Ontological Foundations For Structural Conceptual Models. The stated objective of the book/thesis was, "The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models."
On slide 47 of the first presentation, Guizzardi mentions "Carving up Reality". That is exactly what is done when you digitize something. To digitize something effectively, you have to have a special set of skills PLUS you need talent, skills, and expertise in the area of knowledge or field that you are "carving up" to make digital. This is part of digital proficiency.
Personally, I am helping to digitize accounting which is the language of business. Why? Well, that is a necessary step to enable the creation of new types of tools. Part of this carving process you create theories, conceptual models, and methodologies. For example, I helped to get XBRL started way back in 1999, I created my Logical Theory Describing Financial Report, I got the Standard Business Report Model (SBRM) started which is a logical conceptualization of a business report, and I created the Seattle Method which is a practical methodology of working with digital reports.- XBRL Query and Rule Language 1.0
- What is the OIM? (Open Information Model)
- Standard Business Report Model (SBRM)
- What is a Theory?
- Elements of Logic
- Events
- Transaction Chasing
- Universal Global Open Standard for Digital Accounting and Audit Working Papers
- Mind Map to Think About Modern Accountancy
- Modern Spreadsheet
- Modern Accountancy
- Other additional modeling guidance:
- Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Part-Whole Relations: The Case of Collectives and Their Parts
- On the Representation of Quantities and their Parts in Conceptual Modeling
- The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
- Modal Aspects o Object Types and Part-Whole Relations and the de re/de dicto Distinction
- Conceptual modeling: Foundations, a historical perspective, and a vision for the future
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