Collections
- Collection
- “an aggregation of one or more items”
- Aggregations of, e.g.
- physical items
- natural objects: fossils, mineral samples…
- created objects: documents, artefacts, records…
- digital items
- digital resources: documents, images, multimedia objects, data, software, “learning objects”…
- digital metadata records: MARC, DC, IMS/LOM, CLDs…
- Various criteria for aggregation, e.g.
- location, type/form of item, provenance of item, source/ownership of item, nature of item content