REPLY Who wants to share models (SD6871)

[SDMAIL Bill Braun]

Posted by  Bill Braun <bbraun at hlthsys.com>

Martin offers a perspective on collaboration.

Good points, all. In further thinking about Magne's question, and your 
thoughts also, I think it may be useful to distinguish between group 
model building and group model construction. There is much good thinking 
on the former and I am not familiar with anything that addresses the 
latter (which I take to mean more than one modeler at work on the same 
model at the same time, face-to-face and/or asynchronously).

Dividing a model into sectors as you suggest is viable. Is that the same 
as co-constructing? Is such a thing possible given the complexities of 
modeling, especially large projects? If there were a universally 
recognized library of pieces and parts it might be. There are many good 
examples of that also. I'm not sure of their universal acceptance as 
building blocks (nor have I even thought about the desirability of such 
a thing let alone the practicality).

Bill Braun
Posted by  Bill Braun <bbraun at hlthsys.com>
posting date  Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:53:28 -0400