Background: Collections
“An aggregation of one or more items”
aggregation by
e.g. location, type/form of item, provenance of item,
source/ownership of item, nature of item content, etc!
varying size, degrees of permanence
varying types of items
natural objects, created objects, digital resources, digital
surrogates of physical objects, metadata records
items may not be physically juxtaposed
"Functional granularity"
Pragmatic choice
Based on what is "useful or necessary for the purposes
of resource discovery or collection management“
(Heaney)