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.