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Governance Relationship and Flow Modelling Framework

This framework standardizes how governance, risk, and compliance entities are modelled as directed relationships. It defines a relationship grammar, a node-class taxonomy, a controlled verb vocabulary, a set of declared viewpoints, direction and placement rules, and a validation method, so that a relationship asserted anywhere in this library, or in an adopting organization's own registers and matrices, is precise, directional, testable, and free of the ambiguity that vague linkage language such as relates to produces.

Type
Framework
Version
1.0.8
Date
2026-09-14
Owner
Governance Library Maintainer
Approving authority
Governance Library Maintainer
Classification
Public
Confidentiality
Public
Category
Core Governance
Review frequency
Annual and upon material change to the relationship vocabulary
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Outline

  • Purpose
  • Scope
  • Normative language
  • Core principles
  • Node-class taxonomy
  • Relationship form and controlled verb vocabulary
  • Viewpoints
  • Direction and placement rules
  • Relationship validation method
  • Anti-patterns
  • Worked corpus application
  • Illustrative machine-readable relationship record
  • Adopter guidance: diagram and graph generation
  • Adopter guidance: document-type options
  • Governance and lifecycle
  • Framework alignment
  • Limitations

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