The story · The narrative · Element

The origin

Where the story starts.

The part

What it is

A specific moment rather than a founding year. “Two people in a room” is a date; the problem that put them there is a story.

Origins are worth verifying, because founding stories accumulate embellishment over time and someone who was there will eventually be asked.

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.