The sources · The maintenance · Element
The method
How the source is updated.
The part
What it is
Automatic, integrated, or manual. The proportion of manual maintenance is a good predictor of how much reconciliation work the organisation does.
Semi-automatic — an automatic feed with manual corrections — is the hardest to reason about and the most common.
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.
The other elements in the maintenance
The dependency
Who the source depends on.
LearnThe drift
How far the source has moved from reality.
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