Whenever we post updates of CaseTalk on social media, some experts take these a step further. I love seeing those kinds of responses, for they are making me think outside the box, and add unique new features I never dreamed about. One of these comments was placed at a post about integrating the webbrowser in CaseTalk to integrate the web into the modeling workbench.

This specific comment suggested integrating Google Maps or OpenStreetMap into the model. It would allow example population, to be plotted onto a map, or have custom attribute annotations to indicate where the model element occurred.

After having given this idea enough time to ripen, I decided to combine the so-called complex type and Maps into one. Let me explain.

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On the 2nd of December, I organized another Special Interest Group gathering for FCOIM fans and CaseTalk users in Utrecht. After I briefly showed the feature list of the last 20+ years, we quickly moved over to presenting and discussing GenAI, Sortals, Hapsah, use cases at ProRail and RVO, and intriguing research on EnterpriseOntology by modeling in CaseTalk.

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"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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