The Best Practices Information Model is fundamental to identify (a) semantic tags to markup Best Practices essays (b) semantic classes for Practice, Policy, Procedure and Process models, of prime interest (c) classes for Act, Action, Activity and Task that are the detailed enumerated steps for a "method" that achieves a particularly useful objective.


Key Terms


Practice: the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something.
Policy: a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual.
Procedure: an established or official way of doing something.
Process: a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
Act: a thing done; a deed.
Action: the (fact or) process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.
Activity: the condition in which things are happening or being done. A thing that a person or group does or has done.
Task: a piece of work to be done or undertaken.



Class(Context) rdf:type Class(rdf:Bag,mw:Category,rdfs:Class,Timeline)
Class(Operation) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Context)
Class(Trigger) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Context)
Class(Sink ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Context)
Class(Agent ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Context)
Class(State ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Context)


Class(Event) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Trigger)
Class(Idea ) rdf:type Class(Trigger)
Class(Statement) rdf:type Class(Trigger)


Class(Policy ) rdf:type Class(Result,Procedure)
Class(Procedure) rdf:type Class(Result, Practice)


Class(Essay ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Statement)
Class(Heading ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Statement)
Class(Rationale) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Statement)


Class(Benefit) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Idea)
Class(Risk ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Idea)
Class(Belief ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Idea)
Class(Method ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Idea)


Class(Practice ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Heading, Formula)
Class(Formula ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Idea, Operation )
* rdf:hasProperty Instance(Parameter)
* rdf:hasProperty Instance(Result )


Class(Activity) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Heading,Task)
Class(Task ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Process,Action)
Class(Action) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Event)
Class(Add ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Action)
Class(Change) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Action)
Class(Delete) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Action)
Class(Query ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Action)
Class(Reply ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Action)


Class(Process) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Operation)
* rdf:hasProperty Instance(Risk)
* rdf:hasProperty Instance(Inflow)
* rdf:hasProperty Instance(Practitioner)


Class(Ground ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Sink)
Class(Place ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Sink)
Class(Person ) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Sink)
Class(Publication) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Sink)
Class(Institution) rdfs:subClassOf Class(Sink)