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- Collection as Discovery Set: A group of items arbitrarily grouped together for purposes of discoverability. Items of a discovery set may originate from one or more administrative sets. Some descriptive metadata (title ... what else?) may be applied to this kind of collection in order to facilitate discovery and use; however, no administrative or usage policies may be defined and applied to a discovery set as a whole. The policies of an item's administrative set govern the item in all contexts, regardless of which discovery set(s) it may be a part of.
MM: How does this differ from the archival concept of the "collection"? It seems more like an administrative set just because I don't see how a discovery set would apply.
Item/Object
A cohesive unit, containing one or more files, that constitutes a single information resource. An item is required to be a member of a collection (administrative set) (even if that collection contains only one item). An item may optionally also be part of a collection (discovery set).
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