The sources · The source map · Element
The facts
The things the organisation needs to know.
The part
What it is
Customer count, revenue, headcount, order status, product configuration. A short list of things that matter, rather than every field in every system.
The ones that appear in reporting are the ones worth mapping.
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 source map
The holders
Which systems hold each fact.
LearnThe disagreements
Where the values actually differ.
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