In this document some of the major different schools of schema design methods will be outlined. This is important because the different schools, and different specific examples of these schools, will be referred to in the Project Report , (specifically in part 2). Furthermore, in researching this paper no suitable paper, or chapter in any book, was found that compared and contrasted these topics that would be suitable to be given as a reference. Producing a technical report was therefore thought to be a worthwhile task. It also gives a solid grounding for the discussions in the report.