Mappers
What sources do they extract information from?
We get an idea by looking at which browser tabs are open when Mapping is being done.
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Research - a couple of tabs open
Dictionary
The source regulations, possibly in different versions
Previous mappings, in-depth reports
The Magic spreadsheet
What steps are taken in the process of mapping?
Tagging
Sentences are tagged.
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A tool that helps with human verification of the match between Requirement/Citation and Common Control is the simple word match visualization:
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When do you use the Dictionary?
During the Tagging process
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We lack industry expertise - so deeper definition matching needs to happen because we are not industry experts, we are generalists. Note that these relationships seem to show only our past documents - not referring to a larger underlying corpus. |
What is important in the Dictionary?
most important part to me is just the definition is the, you know, central part of a dictionary just seeing the definitions and then seeing the sources.
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But I guess definition type could help us in so far as we can easily distinguish between terms and I don't have no no terms are coming to mind immediately.
How useful is the Dictionary?
definitions you're getting are just a general you know, the definition of description and the general definition of system, whereas if you tag this exact term right here, and or, you know and usually, you'd create the term if you create the term and give it a specific definition. If you give it a definition type record example, then what you're doing is making it.
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<note: ‘supposed’ and 'could' in the sentence above>
How do you use Relationships in the Dictionary?
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For example, there was let's see. So, previously, there's a control about processing domains, and we were trying to decide whether and how it relates to server And so when I look at processing domain, just by looking at the definition, it's just saying distinct areas like a of computer processing within a server software application or system. And then I look at the immediate relations I didn't see anything that was directly related to okay. So it is directly related to server.
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But normally, when we see something with s p relations as this, it's we need to send it back and we need to add at least 20 to it.
Re the need for evidence
There was one instance in four years where a customer disagreed
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VMware, Verizon, AT and T, These big companies is subject matter experts as Boeing and stuff like that. It's a pretty There's a lot of dialogue and there's a lot of customer, how do I say, skepticism of our choices and disagreement with our choices.
"In those cases where we're dealing with particular particularly skeptical or demanding subject matter experts when things like all of the evidence available in the dictionary and even in the asset tables anywhere we could find in our resources in these recitations, everything here, it becomes you know, I mean, that's basically darsenal, and we have to take information from there and turn it into digestible information or just bullet points from which we can argue the validity of our choice."’
Re the Assets
I feel like all of these element tables don't know how much people really even search here, but, you know, mappers enter all of this information.
And so I feel like this is it's interesting information. And, you know, it took us time to enter this, but I don't know if anybody will ever look at this again.
Why we create a spreadsheet
Mappers created a spreadsheet. So far, every single mapper we spoke to was using this.
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