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Rapid Battle Cards 01–19

1 — Content vs Document

  • Content: information inside the object.
  • Document: the object/container holding or communicating it.
  • Deciding clue: meaning vs container.

2 — Document vs Record

  • Document: may change through normal work lifecycle.
  • Record: evidence with stronger integrity/retention obligations.
  • Clue: proof of what happened/was approved.

3 — Content Management vs Records Management

  • Content Management: organize, publish and reuse.
  • Records Management: preserve evidence; retention, disposition and compliance.

4 — Metadata vs Content

  • Metadata: describes, classifies and organizes the resource.
  • Content: substantive information itself.

5 — Content Model vs Information Architecture

  • Content Model: reusable types/components/attributes.
  • IA: structure, navigation, labeling, search and user findability across the information space.

6 — Push vs Pull

  • Push: scheduled/subscribed delivery.
  • Pull: user initiates retrieval.

7 — Pull vs Interactive

  • Pull: user requests content.
  • Interactive: dynamic two-way/high-volume exchange with enterprise applications.

8 — Controlled Vocabulary vs Folksonomy

  • Controlled: governed approved terms.
  • Folksonomy: terms emerge through social tagging.

9 — Vocabulary View vs Micro-Controlled Vocabulary

  • View: subset of existing master terms only.
  • Micro-controlled: aligned subset plus governed specialized extensions.

10 — Term List vs Taxonomy

  • Term list: allowed terms; no relationship required.
  • Taxonomy: controlled classification/naming structure, often hierarchical/faceted.

11 — Synonym Ring vs Authority List

  • Synonym Ring: equivalent terms treated equally.
  • Authority List: one preferred term; variants redirect.

12 — Authority List vs Thesaurus

  • Authority List: preferred term + variants.
  • Thesaurus: equivalent + hierarchical + associative relations.

13 — Taxonomy vs Ontology

  • Taxonomy: classification/navigation.
  • Ontology: rich domain concepts/classes/instances/relations/events.

14 — Equivalent vs Hierarchical Relation

  • Equivalent: same/synonymous meaning.
  • Hierarchical: broader/narrower or whole/part.
  • Hierarchical: parent/child or whole/part.
  • Related: associative but not hierarchical.

16 — Formal vs Revision Control

  • Formal: change authority + impact evaluation + status accounting/validation.
  • Revision: version increment/change history + stakeholder notification.

17 — Revision vs Custody Control

  • Revision: track versions/changes.
  • Custody: safe storage and retrieval only.

18 — Retention vs Disposition

  • Retention: how long to keep.
  • Disposition: authorized action at end of required life.
  • Retention: normal schedule.
  • Legal Hold: suspends destruction for relevant litigation material.

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