Formats · The inventory · Element
The origin
When the format started, and why.
The part
What it is
A format nobody can date is being produced out of momentum. That is not an argument for stopping it, but it is an argument for asking.
Origins are often a person rather than a decision — someone who liked making it and has since left.
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 inventory
The list
Every format actually in production.
LearnThe volume
How much of the effort each format consumes.
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