Best practices for modelling

Home

---

General

• Level of abstraction
• Names of packages, classes and attributes
• Definitions
• Tagged values
• Versions of models

Classes

• Stereotypes
• Generalization and specialization
• Abstract classes
• Class or data type

Attributes

• Attribute or Association
• Multiplicity
• Connecting attributes to data types

Associations

• Types of associations
• Roles and navigability
• Associations in INSPIRE models: INSPIRE Repository tutorial page 12-13

---

Under construction...

• Namespaces - the connection between UML packages and XML namespaces

Constraints

• OCL: ref INSPIRE Repository tutorial page 10-11
• Display: ref INSPIRE Repository tutorial page 14

Profiles

• Extending or profiling existing models