Framework (Conceptual)

Short Description

A (conceptual) framework is set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality. The eSSIF-Lab framework is such a conceptual framework.

Outside of eSSIF-Lab, the term 'framework' is also used in meanings such as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary:

1. A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.
2. An external work platform; a scaffold.
3. A fundamental structure, as for a written work.
4. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.