Authors: Daniel L. Moody
Tags: 2005, conceptual modeling
An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software products.However there is no equivalent standard for evaluating the quality of conceptual models. While a rangeof quality frameworks have been proposed in the literature, none of these have been widely accepted inpractice and none has emerged as a potential standard. As a result, conceptual models continue to be eval-uated in practice in anad hocway, based on common sense, subjective opinions and experience. For con-ceptual modelling to progress from an ‘‘art’’ to an engineering discipline, quality standards need to bedefined, agreed and applied in practice. This paper conducts a review of research in conceptual model qual-ity and identifies the major theoretical and practical issues which need to be addressed. We consider howconceptual model quality frameworks can be structured, how they can be developed, how they can beempirically validated and how to achieve acceptance in practice. We argue that the current proliferationof quality frameworks is counterproductive to the progress of the field, and that researchers and practitio-ners should work together to establish a common standard (or standards) for conceptual model quality.Finally, we describe some initial efforts towards developing a common standard for data model quality,which may provide a model for future standardisation efforts.Read the full paper here: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0169023X04002307?token=9A539D323DFD030E6F7D3A85708B6CCEB1B8C1CC23A542ADE8E9A1D871045502462F4F0527171A1A5E281D4D818C2969
