Verbal system · The vocabulary · Element

The preferred terms

The word the organisation uses for each thing.

The part

What it is

One term per concept, with the alternatives listed as not-used rather than left implicit.

Capitalisation and formatting belong here too, since inconsistent product naming is the most visible form of this problem.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.