Hark, is that a Pattern that I see before me?

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As I unfold discussion and issues around Document Engineering, I notice that I want to establish/appeal-to patterns in some sort of Pattern Language.

I have some resources that might provide exemplars. I previously worked-out pattern templates around software and computation and I suspect that can be adapted here.

There needs to be more details in this discussion.

Meawhile, I want to emphasize something about Pattern Languages. Patterns, in their original use, were about what certain arrangements were evocative of. This seems quite different than the way Pattern Languages came to be used around the engineering of object-oriented software. I think we need to go back to Christopher Alexander on this.

More TBD.

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My own TROST Pattern Templlates are a basis for use here. It is a little abstract without examples. That particular organization of material exhibits a "folio pattern" of my divising. I didn't formalize the pattern. Funny boy. I also note that the "symbol of trust" is also relevant in this work on Document Engineering.

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I see potentially useful chapters in some books on patterns that might apply here:

Hay, David C. Documents. Chapter 11 in "Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought." Dorset House (New York: 1996). ISBN 0-932633-29-3. These are essentially data models about documents, although there may be something informative about that.

Genualdi, Patricia. Improving Software Development with Process and Organizational Patterns. pp. 121-130 in "The Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Applications,: Linda Rising, editor. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge: 1998). ISBN 0-521-64818-1 pbk.

Riehle,Dirk., Züllighoven, Heinz. A Pattern Language for Tool Construction and Integration Based on the Tools and Materials Metaphor. Chapter 2 in "Pattern Languages of Program Design vol. 1," James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt, eds. Addision-Wesley (Reading, MA: 1995). ISBN 0-201-60734-4.

Coplien, James O. A Generative Development-Process Patter Language. Chapter 13 ibid.

Foote, Brian., Opdyke, William F. Lifecycle and Refactoring Patterns That Support Evolution and Reuse. Chapter 14 ibid.

and other chapters in that book.

Foote, Brian., Yoder, Joseph. Evolution, Architecture, and Metamorphosis. Chapter 18 in "Pattern Languages of Program Design vol. 2," Hohn M. Vlissides, James O. Coplien, Norman L. Kerth, eds. Addison-Wesley (Wrading, MA: 1996). ISBN 0-201-89527-7.

Harrison, Neil B. Organizational Patterns for Teams. Chapter 21, ibid.

and Part 6, Exposition, ibid.

to be continued ... (and the Alexander sources matter too) ...

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Here are Christopher Alexander resources I have "at hand."

Alexander, Christopher. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA: 1964). ISBN 0-674-62751-2 pbk. Here is a glimmer of a kind of fanciful thinking that looks into qualities related to substances and the power of (abstract) diagrams.

Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press (New York: 1979). ISBN 0-19-502402-8. The first book in the Center for Environmental Structure Series.

Alexander, Christopher., Ishikawa, Sara., Silverstein, Murray., Jacobson, Max., Fiksdahl-King, Ingrid., Angel, Schlomo. A Pattern Language. (Oxford University Press (New York: 1977). The second book of the Center for Environmental Structure Series.

Alexander, Christopher. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life. Center for Environmental Structure (Berkeley, CA: 2002). ISBN 0-9726529-1-4. The metaphysics to be deconstructed into what can be said more about form over substance.