This document defines several key architecture terms:
- Architecture landscape represents assets
- Architecture metamodel organizes an architecture framework and development method
- Architecture capability provides templates and patterns for new architectures
- Views organize components for specific functions
- Architecture describes a system's components, relationships, and design principles
It also describes the Enterprise Continuum for classifying artifacts, and the Architecture Governance Framework's processes, content, repository, and flow control. Architectural descriptions document architectures through artifacts.