collection_objects.md

Information Package Definition: Collection Objects

General scope of the information package

Management of physical collection objects and close metadata.

Reason(s) for being standalone

Collection-holding institutions need inventories / catalogues of their objects independent from manifold use-cases in research, exhibitions etc. They need countable entries of their holdings and a single point for search of object related data.

Which information should be accommodated in this information package?

• collection metadata
• management of physical entities and catalogued objects
• management of properties / attributes of the physical entities and collection units
• determinations history
• preparations and preparation processes
• quantity and quality
• transactions and requests
• availability
• storage
• metadata on collecting events
• links to related information
  • agents: owner, collector, determiner, donator, funder
  • provenance
  • research data
  • literature
  • media
  • DNA
  • digitization metadata
  • collecting events
  • ...

Which information does not live in this information package?

• observation data
• taxonomic research data (e.g. species traits)
• detailed information on the linked entities
• project metadata
• ...

Related high-level use cases

• (optional: link use case tickets here, to keep this section short)