| Required Status Classifiers | Permitted Choices | Definitions |
| SUM Type | Domain | SUM is specific and applicable only to a specific set of domains. |
| CORE | SUM is COmmonly REcurring (CORE) either within and /or across domains. For a SUM to be classified as CORE it must be approved as such by the e-Framework Integrity Group (e-FIG). This value SHALL only be used for Service Usage Models (it implies a CORE SUM, aka Service Pattern)
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| Status (assigned by e‑Framework) | Placeholder | SUM has been identified but not documented. |
| Unapproved | SUM has been documented, but the documentation has not been reviewed, approved, or made available in the e-Framework website. |
| Approved | SUM has been fully documented (for a specific version of the documentation) and the documentation is available on the website. |
| Withdrawn | SUM description has been withdrawn. |
| Superseded | SUM and its documentation has been replaced by a newer version or the SUM has been replaced by a newer, refactored SUM.
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| Domain(s)
(select one or more) | Learning and Teaching | Encompasses "e-teaching" and "e-training" as well as "e-learning". |
| Administration | Sometimes referred to as "e-administration"
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| Libraries | Includes all the services typically available through the library systems
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| Research | Sometimes referred to as "e-research" and "e-science" but encompasses investigate study in both the sciences and humanities
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| IT Services | Describes IT support systems that enable specific IT applications utilised in the other four domains |
| Common | SUM is common and equally applicable to all five domains above. |
| Maturity | Immature | SUM is unreliable and/or rapidly evolving |
| Mature | SUM is stable and potentially a legacy component |
| Purpose(s) (select one or more) | Exemplar | SUM has been developed and documented as an exemplar; use and deployments may not exist. |
| Application | SUM has been developed and documented to describe an existing application or SERVICE; production-level use and deployments do exist. |
| Modelling | SUM has been developed and documented as part of a modelling exercise; use and deployments may not exist. |
| Toolkit | SUM has been developed and documented as part of developing a toolkit; production-level use and deployments of the resulting toolkit(s) may not exist. |
| XOR (exclusive “or”) | Service Genres | SUM is defined exclusively in terms of service genres. |
| Service Expressions | SUM is defined exclusively in terms of service expressions. |
| Confidence (assigned by e‑Framework) | High | SUM elicits a high level of consensus in its accuracy. |
| Medium | SUM elicits a medium level of consensus in its accuracy |
| Low | SUM elicits a low level of consensus in its accuracy |