Category:Concepts

Overview
A concept is a generic word or phrase which pertains to the e-assessment domain.

Concepts are a means of indexing, searching and retrieving resources (such as web services) within the reference model.

There are currently nearly 200 concepts defined inside FREMA. They are presented in two interactive graphical "concept maps" - the Process Map and the Entity Map.

For more information about the development of the concepts, and how to use the concept maps, see the Concept Maps Help page.

Attributes
There are no attributes assigned to concepts.

Usage
The set of available concepts was derived by the FREMA project team. For more information about how they were developed see Concept Help page. Note that FREMA does not currently allow you to create new concepts of your own (although that may change in the future).

How to associate concepts with a new component in FREMA
Whenever you add a new component (e.g organisation) to the reference model, you should associate as many concepts with it as possible. These instructions explain how to first associate one concept with a component, then how you create many associations (recommended).

When you create any new FREMA component, you will see the following code in your creation screen ! class="refboxheader" | Entities ! class="refboxheader" | Processes
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx

This is the code which establishes mappings from components to concepts. Note it has two sections; the first specifies Entity concepts, the second specifies Process concepts.

Create an association with ONE concept
Notice the following line appears twice above

This is how you map the component you are currently creating to one concept. The first part of the line should be left alone; this displays the following icon image -  - on your component's page xxx is the portion you should change.
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * Replace the first xxx by a name of an existing FREMA concept (e.g. Author item) - you will have to refer to the concept maps or list of concepts to ensure you use a valid name (CASE SENSITIVE??)
 * The second xxx is a word or phrase of your choice which will appear on your component's page as the label for this concept.

For example, will create an association from this component (whatever it is) to the concept "Author item". The following example
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] Author item


 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] Testing Roles

is slightly different. It use the existing concept name Roles relating to test, but uses a different display phrase (i.e. Testing Roles).

Create an association with MANY concepts
It is recommended that you identify as many concepts as possible which relate to your component. Ideally you will use several from each of the Process Map and the Entity Map.

To create more than one association, you have to repeat the line many times.
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx

For example, if you wished to map a component against 3 entity and 5 process concepts, you would first create the following text ! class="refboxheader" | Entities ! class="refboxheader" | Processes and edit each of these lines using the above instructions.
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx
 * [[Image:concept.gif|Concept]] xxx

Related Components and Associations
The following table identifies the other components to which Concept is associated. Click on an association below to find out more information.