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Subject: Comments on the metamodel slide deck
- From: "Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>
- To: <dita-busdocs@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:45:56 -0600
I've reviewed the
metamodel slide deck. The main issue I have with it is that slides
are not a narrative to be read. They merely give visual emphasis to the actual
narrative that you speak. There's a reason they're called bullets (aside from
the resemblance to bullet holes). Bang! Bang! Bang! They're like brief notes
that the listener might jot down as reminders of your main
points. The content must be terse and well spaced. Wall to wall gray matter boggles the eye and puts the
viewer to sleep--and tempts you to read every word, the cardinal sin of
powerpoint. I've done a rewrite just to demonstrate what I mean
(attached). In some cases I split a slide in two.
I'm sure you can do a better job of it than I.
Do we want an overview TOC up front? Give folks an idea
where we're going? Judging from the
slides with just a title and no conntent, the sections seem to be:
Introduction
Is this the best
title? I added some bullets as a kind of TOC for this section.
Enterprise Content
Management
Slides 17 through 21. This section would benefit from a couple of
examples of the tremendous redundancy that we saw in that other slide deck. Can
we use some of those slides?
Modeling
Enterprise Content
The bulk of the slides. These are laid out well, terse and
very readable, and the repeated common structure helps. For slide 27, I made a graphic so I could change the
font color for legibility (black and blue not good for eyes). For slides
57-62, I've added thumbnail excerpts from the "abstract types" slide image, one
for each abstract type, to recapitulate the vertical relationships. I didn't
include topic at the top, I could redo them if desired, but there is a stub
vertical line ascending, maybe that's enough as a talking point.
Business Content
Specializations
Need some content here.
Aggregated Business
Documents
Does this belong in a presentation about the metamodel, or is that
a separate slide deck?
Metadata
Requirements
Just lists 5 categories of metadata. Is there more to
say?
BusDocsMetamodel_BN.zip
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