Collections in the JISC Information Environment
- Physical collections
- of physical items (e.g. books, journals)
- Digital collections
- of digital items (texts, images, multimedia objects, software, datasets, “learning objects” etc)
- of digital metadata records
- describing physical items (e.g. MARC records in OPAC)
- describing digital items (e.g. Dublin Core records in subject gateway database)
- describing physical collections (e.g. EAD CLDs in Archives Hub database)
- metadata record contains identifier/locator of resource