Reading the result · The finding · Element

The interpretation

What the analyst thinks it means.

The part

What it is

Kept separate from the result so the two can be disagreed with independently.

Where interpretation goes beyond what the method supports, saying so is what preserves the analyst’s credibility for the next finding.

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.