"As a centrally positioned Data Services team in Rotterdam, we wanted to explore the possibilities of Fact-Oriented Modeling (FOM) for several reasons:

• We see a gap between legislation and regulations, and operational systems, which is something Ronald Damhof also discusses.
• Due to digitalization (a computer is relatively simple), it has become clear that we need to be very specific in our definitions and regulations.
• Can FOM help identify ambiguity in, for example, the regulations applied to a municipality?

We wanted to investigate this in a pilot related to Rotterdam’s policies. We carried out the pilot internally by modeling a GLO (Data Delivery Agreement) process. The pilot was conducted in Casetalk with support from Marco Wobben."

Robert Jansen and Victor van der Kloet
Municipality of Rotterdam

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When confronted with fact oriented modeling, it can be a little overwhelming. Especially for professionals who have spent years on modeling entities. These people miss the possibility to enter an entity, their attributes and the relationships. For those, we have added a wizard to get started.

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CaseTalk supports bookmarks by simply selecting anything in the Modeler, and go to the Bookmark menu in the main window. There the selected item can be added to the existing bookmarks, or can simply be copied. By copying the bookmark, the bookmark can be pasted outside of CaseTalk and functions as a URL. Similar to the protocol http:// or https://, now the casetalk:// will work.

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