Principles

   

In the ArchiMate® specification, a Principle represents a statement of intent defining a general property that applies to any system in a certain context in the architecture. A system may refer to any active structural element, behaviour element, or passive structural element of some organisation, such as a business actor, application component, business process, application service, business object, or data object.

The eArchiving principles are described in a separate document: Principles for long-term accessibility of information. Though the Motivation aspect defines Principles as one component, we decided to separate and prioritise the work because of extensive community interest. The first version of eArchiving principles has already been released in early 2020 and reviewed by a limited set of experts. This document is accompanied by a third revision of the principles document, which includes received feedback. You can download the Principles … documents in the Downloads section of this model.