Thanks to all who attended my Content Modeling with CRC session at STC Spectrum yesterday. I was able to record the session using my handy iPod, and broke the hour up into six segments:

1: Introduction and Overview [MP3, 5.7 MB, 12:32] 

2: Setup and Roles [MP3, 3.0MB, 6:47]

3: Brainstorming Classes [MP3, 3.6MB, 7:47]

4: Brainstorming Responsibilities and Collabors [MP3, 5.0MB, 10:50]

5: "LeftRighting" and Relationships [MP3, 8.5MB, 18:32]

6: Questions and Answers [MP3, 3.4MB, 7:23]

The Handouts are available here: contentModelingWithCRC.pdf [PDF, 667K] 

Thanks to Amy Castranova and Jan Peartree from Novatek for inviting me and introducing me respectively. Also thanks to the folks from Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics who came prepared with a real world scenario for us to work through the process. Special thanks to Terry Badger for helping to hang things on the wall!

It was great to get back into doing this and I got a lot of positive feedback. One comment was that this was the first time this senior tech writer had been given a method of modeling the content.

One thing I forgot to mention in the talk but which appeared in the Talk I Wish I'd Given was the point about the difference between the relational and hierarchical models and some of the errors and cul-de-sacs we get into trying to force many-to-many relationships into hierarchies.