What is a collection?
- Collection
- “an aggregation of physical or digital items”
- Aggregates of, e.g.
- natural objects: fossils, mineral samples…
- created objects: artefacts, documents, records…
- digital resources: documents, images, multimedia objects, data, software…
- digital surrogates of physical objects: documents, images…
- metadata: catalogue records, item descriptions, collection-level descriptions (!)…