The sources · The maintenance · Element

The dependency

Who the source depends on.

The part

What it is

For manual sources, one person. Recording it makes a familiar single-point dependency visible rather than discovered.

The question worth asking is what happens to the reporting if that person is away for a month.

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.