Jumping

Understanding Jumping

Jumping applies in exactly three situations, per category-specific guidance in the CRL-to-FRL table: information constituent resources (e.g., syndicated data, where the work group described is the one the information is actually influencing, since pinpointing the moment a decision occurs is impractical), investment products (always D resources used for investing, where jumping avoids describing an arbitrary downstream use of cash and instead always classifies to a fixed investment work group), and inputs to the customer’s product (where the final resource is consumed by the customer’s customer, outside the customer’s own system, e.g., a concrete mixer’s output going into a construction company’s building). The rule for choosing which work group to record differs by case: for information resources, the work group that outputs the information; for investment products, always the fixed investment work group; for inputs, the work group that incorporates the input into the product. In each case the constituent resource is itself the terminal description, so the barcode passes directly from the Constituent Resource Locus to the Work Group Locus without a filled Final Resource Locus, an explicit exception to the normal CRL/FRL pairing.