Table 1

Examples of competency questions that help in choosing an appropriate ODP

Question
ODP

Do these values exhaust the space of possibilities for a value space?
Value Partition
Is this a structure where the order matters?
List
Are those features of a relationship?
N-ary Relationship
Does it constitute an exception of a default case?
Exception

Aranguren et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9(Suppl 5):S1   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S5-S1