Retention and deletion · The schedule · Element

The periods

How long each type is held.

The part

What it is

Per data type rather than per system, since the same system holds data with very different retention requirements.

A single organisation-wide period is simple and is wrong for most of the data it covers.

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.