Geospatial and temporal reference:

A case study illustrating (radical) refactoring

This tutorial walks through an illustrative case study of how the BORO methodology has been used to radical refactor data in an industrial context. The example is taken from work done reviewing the current practices and artefacts used for the information modelling of the Geospatial and Temporal References (G&TR) in the UK surface ship community and investigating the ways in which the use of ontologies can help to improve them. The themes of this tutorial are refactoring and rational reconstruction. This is part of a series of tutorials that walk through examples that illustrate how the BORO methodology has been used to re-engineer data in an industrial context.