Definitions and lineage · The definition set · Element
The local definitions
Where teams have invented their own.
The part
What it is
Found by comparing how a term is calculated across reports. Divergence is the symptom and a local definition is the cause.
A local definition that is better than the central one should be adopted rather than suppressed.
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 definition set
The terms
The terms that are defined.
LearnThe findability
Whether people can find it when they need it.
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