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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.
- MO: Administrative set in my mind most closely matches our understanding of an 'archival' collection but is probably oversimplied. We'll need administrative sets that can be clustered in parent child relationships with one administrative set (the collection) having additional administrative sets that live under it (series). I'm still trying to get a better understanding of Discovery set and wonder if this definition is off in one important respect; policies for discovery sets will need to be varied and can't be universally inherited from a single administrative set policy as these will vary. Some series will need to be discoverable, metadata only discoverable, or not discoverable at all. Thoughts? MO
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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