Definitions and lineage · The definition set · Element
The terms
The terms that are defined.
The part
What it is
The ones that appear in reporting and in decisions rather than every field in every system.
Terms that mean different things in different parts of the organisation need either one definition or two distinct names.
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 findability
Whether people can find it when they need it.
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Where teams have invented their own.
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